Artificial intelligence is paving the way for patients with conditions that hinder their ability to speak to reclaim their voices, The Washington Post reported April 20.
Through a process known as "voice banking," companies can record people's voices while they are still intact and recreate them for text-to-speech software. Advances in AI have made the process cheaper and less time-consuming, expanding access for people with ALS, throat cancer, cerebral palsy and Parkinson's disease, according to the Post. Now, most companies only need a few hundred sentences to be able to recreate someone's voice.
People who've undergone the process say having a computer-generated voice that sounds like their own has boosted their confidence and helped them connect with the world.
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