"An initiative by a UK-based charity, supported by technology companies and universities, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital twin that allows people with communications disabilities to speak in a natural way. The technology, known as VoxAI, represents a step-change from the computer-assisted voice used by late physicist Stephen Hawking, one of the first well-known public figures with motor neurone disease (MND)."
"The platform brings together AI technologies to create photo-realistic avatars that move in a natural way, with natural facial expressions, and can reproduce the voice of the person using it. It is able to listen to the conversation and offer disabled people a choice of three answers that they could select based on its understanding of the person. One of the people testing the technology, Leah Stavenhagen, for example, worked as a consultant at McKinsey before she developed MND."
A UK charity partnered with technology companies and universities to develop VoxAI, an AI-powered digital twin that enables people with communications disabilities to speak naturally. The Scott-Morgan Foundation led a five-year project to create a platform for people with motor neurone disease (MND/ALS). Chief technologist Bernard Muller, paralysed with MND, developed the system and learned to write code using eye-tracking. The platform combines AI to produce photo-realistic avatars with natural facial expressions and voice reproduction. The system listens to conversations and offers users three selectable reply options based on its understanding. The AI can be trained on personal materials such as books and interviews to match language and voice.
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