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People with ALS across Spain can now save their own voice for free with AI

On 28 October the Spanish ALS association adELA and AI company ElevenLabs signed an agreement so that any ALS patient in Spain whose voice is affected can create a digital version of their own voice free of charge, from current or old recordings. Patients do not need to be adELA members. Talking with the digital voice takes patience: conversations move more slowly than before.

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AI 'electronic nose' sends smells over the internet and recreates them at the other end

Researchers at Ohio State University and China's Zhejiang Laboratory describe Scentronic in Science Advances: a system that recognises a smell with gas sensors and reproduces it remotely through a wristband or necklace that sprays fragrance. It is a lab prototype: for now it knows five smells, and in tests volunteers correctly identified the recreated smell 73% of the time.

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4,000-4,500 People living with ALS in Spain, according to ElevenLabs. All of those whose voice is affected can apply for the system for free. Read the story → 73% Of transmitted smells that volunteers identified correctly; for mixtures of two smells, about 71%. Read the story → 0.84 The model's ability to tell apart patients with and without armpit lymph node metastasis (1 would be perfect), according to the paper. Read the story →