Yorkshireman with motor neurone disease losing ability to speak gets to keep his accent due to breakthrough stat : The Telegraph

A 41-year-old father with motor neurone disease will be able to keep his Yorkshire accent despite the fact he is losing the ability to speak. But instead of giving him a computer-generated voice, specialists have created a voice with a Yorkshire accent for Mr Liversidge. Jason Liversidge, from Scarborough in North Yorkshire, was diagnosed with in 2014 and is slowly losing the ability to speak as his condition progresses. Speaking to BBC Inside Out Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, Mr Liversidge said he was hoping to keep his voice to communicate with his children, Poppy and Lilly, and wife, Liz. Donor voices were needed because Mr Liversidge's speech is already slurred.




Media caption Motor neurone sufferer Jason Liversidge trials Yorkshire voiceA man with motor neurone disease (MND) is creating a voice synthesiser with a Yorkshire accent to help him keep his identity when he can no longer speak. About 30 Yorkshiremen were needed to program a voice for Mr Liversidge. The "new" voice created by the clinic is controlled by Mr Liversidge using eye movements, focusing on letters to type out what he wants to say. As the condition progresses, he can use a voice synthesiser similar to the one famously used by physicist Prof Stephen Hawking - but Mr Liversidge wanted to make sure it sounded more like his own voice. Jason Liversidge, 41, originally from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, was diagnosed with MND in 2013 and knows one day he will not be able to talk.


Jason Liversidge will be able to speak again with a Yorkshire accent (Picture: PA)A man who is losing his voice to motor neurone disease will be given back his Yorkshire accent in a UK first. Jason Liversidge, from Hull, has trouble walking, swallowing and talking after he was diagnosed with the degenerative disease in 2013. The Anne Rowling Clinic in Edinburgh has given people Scottish accents before, but Jason is believed to be the first person to get a regional voice. But now experts are able to save his voice by creating a personalised synthasiser that mimics the northern dialect. The personalised voice equipment should be ready to use in a matter of months, once all the donor voices have been recorded.



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