App To Help Motor Neurone Disease Sufferers

Motor Neurone Disease sufferers who struggle with speech will be able to communicate via a recording of their own voice with the help of a pioneering new app.

In the past users of the Predictable app would only be able to chose from a limited selection of voices.

Now the makers of the app have joined forces with US company ModelTalker, which specialises in a process called voice banking.

The app will ask sufferers in the earlier stages of the disease to record 1,600 words and phrases, which ModelTalker will break down and digitise.

The new synthesised voice can then be uploaded on the Predictable app when speech becomes difficult.

Predictable also allows friends or relatives to record a voice track on behalf of the sufferer.

MND attacks the nervous system, causing the muscles to weaken and waste, ultimately limiting speech and movement.