Apple's Personal Voice Feature Preserves Voices of Those at Risk of Speech Loss

Disability Advocate Tristram Ingham Uses Feature to Maintain Autonomy Amid Progressive Condition

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.