After 25 years of silence, woman with ALS speaks again using her own cloned voice
September 19, 2025
|In Good Stuff Story
At 34, Sarah Ezekiel lost her ability to speak due to ALS and has spent the past 25 years communicating through a robotic computer-generated voice. But now, thanks to artificial intelligence, she’s gotten her real voice back. A company called Smartbox used just eight seconds of grainy audio pulled from an old VHS tape to recreate her natural speech. Despite the poor quality of the recording, new AI technology was able to faithfully clone her voice — giving her the chance to sound like herself again after decades of silence.
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