Having used a communication aid for pretty much all my life, I’m fairly used to having a synthetic, robot-like voice. However, this report on the local news just caught my interest. A woman with Motor-Neurone Disease has had her old voice recreated from recordings. “Yvonne Johnson, 58, from north London was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) almost six years ago. A bubbly, charismatic personality, she found losing her ability to speak the most difficult to process. But now Yvonne has regained the ability to communicate in her own voice through artificial intelligence (AI) technology.” I must admit it struck me as very cool, particularly amid all the other doom and gloom, although it did get me wondering: if her voice could be reconstructed like this, what might mine sound like? Could other AAC users soon be able to select which voice they want, perhaps choosing from an array of life-like voices? Might I even one day have the opportunity to sound like James Bond or Captain Picard?