US Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) faced the loss of her voice due to Parkinson’s Disease-like Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), relying on common robotic-voiced text-to-speech tools. Now, thanks to AI-powered voice cloning provided by ElevenLabs, she can give speeches in her original voice despite PSP’s impact on her vocal abilities.
After Wexton used the robotic-sounding speech on the House floor, ElevenLab reached out to Wexton’s staff. With Wexton’s approval, her team provided ElevenLabs with over an hour of audio clips from before her diagnosis. In just a few days, ElevenLabs successfully created a digital version of Wexton’s voice, capturing the cadence, tone, and timbre that were once characteristic of her speech, according to the congresswoman and her team. The new voice model was first showcased as Wexton addressed the House Appropriations Committee, providing a strikingly natural sound compared to her previous computer-generated voice.
