Why Good News Makes Good Sense

When motor neurone disease left Sarah Ezekiel unable to speak, her children only knew her through a robotic voice. For 25 years, communication was limited to eye-gaze technology and synthetic speech.
Now, thanks to AI and just eight seconds of old audio, Sarah can hear her real voice again and so can her children. “After such a long time, I couldn’t really remember my voice. When I first heard it again, I felt like crying. It’s a kind of miracle”.

An ABC reporter who sustained a life-altering spinal cord injury at the age of 19 is hand-cycling his way from Perth to Sydney, aiming to raise $1million for spinal cord injury research.