Stephen Hawking's vocals are sampled in a new Pink Floyd album

Stephen Hawking's synthesized speaking voice will be featured on Pink Floyd's new album. The iconic physicist and pop culture icon is being sampled in a new track called "Talkin' Hawkin'" from the band's upcoming album The Endless River.

The new song samples a clip from Hawking's speech in a British commercial in 1994 where he explains civilization. This is not the first time Hawking's synthetic vocals were sampled. Pink Floyd previously used a sample from the same 1994 speech for the song "Keep Talkin'" off their album The Division Bell, released in the same year.