MND causes muscle weakness and deterioration. According to the MND Association, 80% of people with MND experience significant changes in their speech. <\/p>\n
Six people die in the UK every day from MND and life expectancy is about 18 months. Currently there is no cure. <\/p>\n
Yvonne’s family said it’s had a huge impact on all of them. <\/p>\n
Her husband Orville Johnson said: “All of us have been robbed of enjoying this stage in our lives.<\/p>\n
“You see her authenticity being slowly taken away.”<\/p>\n
However, the AI technology has allowed the family to feel like Yvonne’s personality is back in the room.<\/p>\n
Her daughter Kayla said the device had changed everything.<\/p>\n
Kayla said: “When I first heard it I was really shocked because it sounded so close to her voice and took me back to how my mum used to be.<\/p>\n
“It felt like my mum was there in a sense.”<\/p>\n
Yvonne and Orville also used the device to renew their vows for their 25th wedding anniversary. <\/p>\n
During the ceremony Yvonne used her AI voice to recite her vows to her friends and family.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on what that meant to the family, Orville said: “That was just really amazing, it was like, that’s Yvonne, that’s how she sounds, that’s her.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MND causes muscle weakness and deterioration. According to the MND Association, 80% of people with MND experience significant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-456914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}