US EditionAI helps restore UK woman’s voice from 8-second clip after 25 years
AI technology cloned Sarah Ezekiel's voice from an eight-second VHS clip, enabling her to communicate with her own voice after 25 years of using a synthetic one.
- Sarah Ezekiel, a 59-year-old artist from Hendon, London, lost her voice after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease in April 2000.
- Her condition progressively damaged her speech and mobility, forcing her to use synthetic voices that sounded robotic and did not reflect her identity.
- Recently, Smartbox cloned Sarah's voice from an eight-second noisy VHS clip of her speaking in the 1990s using AI tools from ElevenLabs, restoring her natural voice to her communication device.
- Sarah said, "I love having my voice back" and nearly cried hearing it, while her children Aviva and Eric described feeling more connected to her hearing her real voice for the first time.
- This technology shows promise in preserving identity for MND sufferers and helping people regain authentic speech despite limited original recordings.
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AI helps UK woman rediscover lost voice after 25 years
A British woman suffering from motor neuron disease who lost her ability to speak is once again talking in her own voice thanks to artificial intelligence and a barely audible eight-second clip from an old home video.
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