Hi Guys,
Could you pls help me to understand the meaning of - drawl of speech box in the below sentence?
He admits that until the age of 5, he barely had any conversation with the drawl of speech box
Thank you!
This is hard to properly understand without more context. From the discovered context, I gather that "he" is the son of Stephen Hawking, who, because of a medical condition, had to communicate through computer-synthesised speech (the "speech box"). "drawl" appears to have its usual dictionary meaning, though "the drawl of speech box" is rather unusual phrasing.
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This is hard to properly understand without more context. From the discovered context, I gather that "he" is the son of Stephen Hawking, who, because of a medical condition, had to communicate through computer-synthesised speech (the "speech box"). "drawl" appears to have its usual dictionary meaning, though "the drawl of speech box" is rather unusual phrasing.
That is from a website I found easily by searching on that line. The writer seems to be a non-native speaker. "Barely had any conversation" and "drawl of speech box" are unidiomatic. I can't even tell exactly what the writer means. There are other errors in the piece.