Overview
- Lewis Moody says AI voice banking feels “warming” and helps him plan for how he will communicate as motor neurone disease progresses.
- He recorded sessions in a friend’s studio to build a personalised synthetic voice and video avatars that can speak in his style.
- He is also feeding the system details about his habits and thought processes so it can better predict what he wants to say.
- He reported recent loss of strength in his middle fingers and described the mental toll of each new change in his body.
- He will cycle 500 miles over seven days this summer to raise money for MND research and says close friends in rugby are backing him, with the sport already scarred by cases like Doddie Weir, Joost van der Westhuizen and Rob Burrow.