Overview

• Apple's new Personal Voice feature allows users at risk of speech loss to create a voice that sounds like them by capturing 15 minutes of audio.
• Tristram Ingham, a disability advocate and physician with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), has used the feature to preserve his voice as his condition progresses.
• Apple's Live Speech feature, released alongside Personal Voice, allows users to type what they want to say and have it spoken aloud in their Personal Voice or any built-in system voice.
• Ingham used his Personal Voice to narrate Apple's new video 'The Lost Voice', created for International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
• Ingham highlights the importance of these features in maintaining autonomy and self-determination for individuals with disabilities.