{"id":12590,"date":"2025-12-28T12:15:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.d-id.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=12590"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:30:41","slug":"computer-weekly-how-digital-twins-are-helping-people-with-motor-neurone-disease-speak","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.d-id.com\/news\/computer-weekly-how-digital-twins-are-helping-people-with-motor-neurone-disease-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Weekly: How digital twins are helping people with motor neurone disease speak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For people living with motor neurone disease (MND\/ALS) and other speech-limiting conditions, the hardest part of conversation is often the <em>delay<\/em>\u2014by the time a sentence is composed, the moment has passed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/news\/366636141\/How-digital-twins-are-helping-people-with-motor-neurone-disease-speak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This Computer Weekly article<\/a> introduces <strong>VoxAI<\/strong>, an AI-powered \u201cdigital twin\u201d platform from the <strong>Scott-Morgan Foundation<\/strong> designed to help people speak more naturally by speeding up responses and restoring facial expression and presence.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story explains how the system works in practice: it can <strong>listen to the ongoing conversation<\/strong>, then present <strong>three possible replies<\/strong> that the user can select\u2014often via <strong>eye-tracking<\/strong>\u2014based on the AI\u2019s understanding of the person. It includes real examples, like <strong>Leah Stavenhagen<\/strong>, whose AI was trained on her writing and interviews, and it highlights why this matters medically and emotionally: reducing the strain of laborious spelling, avoiding awkward pauses, and keeping people active in the flow of dialogue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Computer Weekly also gets into the rollout and the ecosystem behind it: the foundation plans to make the software <strong>free to use<\/strong> (with a subscription option for advanced features), and a <strong>two-year trial<\/strong> led by Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey is planned to evaluate impact. It explicitly credits the technology stack\u2014<strong>D-ID<\/strong> for the animated digital avatar layer, <strong>ElevenLabs<\/strong> for voice cloning, <strong>Irisbond<\/strong> for eye-tracking, and <strong>Nvidia<\/strong> GPUs\u2014and closes on a simple idea: when an avatar can bring back someone\u2019s smile, they\u2019re not just \u201cheard,\u201d they\u2019re present again. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<section class=\"c-block c-margin c-margin--top-default c-margin--bottom-default c-padding--top-default c-padding--bottom-default c-paddingm--top-default c-paddingm--bottom-default c-block b-buttons b-buttons--page-computer-weekly-how-digital-twins-are-helping-people-with-motor-neurone-disease-speak  align b-buttons-layout-default b-buttons--layout-default b-buttons-style-default\" id=\"b-buttons-1\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"c-button-collection\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"c-button-collection__item\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/news\/366636141\/How-digital-twins-are-helping-people-with-motor-neurone-disease-speak\" class=\"c-link btn c-button c-button btn-arrow btn-primary\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Click to read the full article\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\n\tClick to read the full article\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\t<svg width=\"14\" height=\"15\" viewBox=\"0 0 14 15\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"presentation\">\n\t\t\t<path d=\"M1.30225 13.0525H12.2991V2.05567\" stroke=\"#FF882E\" stroke-width=\"2\"\/>\n\t\t\t<line y1=\"-1\" x2=\"16.3571\" y2=\"-1\" transform=\"matrix(-0.707107 -0.707107 -0.707107 0.707107 11.5664 13.9443)\" stroke=\"#FF882E\" stroke-width=\"2\"\/>\n\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For people living with motor neurone disease (MND\/ALS) and other speech-limiting conditions, the hardest part of conversation is often the delay\u2014by the time a sentence is composed, the moment has passed. 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