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Speed of technology giving the silenced back their voice

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29.08.2025

A Different View with Dave O’Connell

Back when the great Charlie Bird was first diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease in 2021, one of his greatest fears was losing that unique voice — which was where a pair of Dublin-based design innovators came in.

Keith Davey is the founder of Marino Software in Dublin and Trevor Vaugh is assistant professor at the Department of Design Innovation in NUI Maynooth — and, in the early stages of the age of artificial intelligence, they came up with an app to replicate those unmistakable tones.

They........

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