A SPECIALIST team at Barnsley Hospital played a huge part in helping a father of two with motor neurone disease keep his Yorkshire accent despite the fact he is losing the ability to speak.
Jason Liversidge appeared on BBC’s ‘Inside Out’ programme due to him having a bespoke, synthetic voice created for him which sounds exactly like his own.
The 41-year-old was diagnosed with MND in 2013 and knows he will one day lose the ability to talk. But he wanted to keep his accent which he sees as part of his identity.
The voice was created in Edinburgh, but the device which allowed him to use that voice was provided by the Barnsley Hospital’s Assistive Technology Team, led by Simon Judge.
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