Sunday, February 5, 2017

Motor neurone sufferer is given computer voice with Yorkshire accent

A father's 41-year-old with motor neurone disease (MND) who lost his ability to speak, the sound will be given computers with an accent of Yorkshire.


Jason Liversidge, from Scarborough in North Yorkshire, is part of a new project, which provides patients with MND technology voice accented.

Experts used footage from Mr Liversidges's voice from a speech he was giving her sister's wedding, plus a Yorkshire man who has contributed their voices, including best friend Jason, Phil White.

Donor's voice was necessary because Mr Liversidge posts already blurred.

Mr Liversidge said he hoped the new computer-generated voice, which developed at a centre in Edinburgh, financed by Harry

Potter author JK Rowling, will make it possible for him to stay in touch with his wife Liz and two children.


Talking to the BBC outside of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, added Mr Liversidge, accented voice will allow him "to keep the form of identity".

He said: "I just didn't want to be a voice that is programmed on a computer. But also for children and Liz, [I want you] to hear my voice rather [than] computer. "

Dr Phillipa Rewaj, the speech therapist in the Anne Rowling clinic, says: "your voice is identified to others, such as your face. It's very unique to you. Then to be able to maintain it is really important for people. "
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