Built by and for People With Paralysis, This ALS Tech Gives A.I. a Human Voice

Bernard Muller, CTO of The Scott-Morgan Foundation. Courtesy The Scott-Morgan Foundation

When British roboticist Dr. Peter Scott-Morgan was diagnosed with ALS in 2017, he was told the disease would gradually take his voice, his movement and, eventually, his place in the world. But he refused to accept the idea that losing speech should mean losing identity. As his body weakened, the Scott-Morgan turned to technology, experimenting with voice synthesis, gaze interfaces and avatar-based communication. His public transformation earned him the description of the world’s first “human cyborg,” but the label masked a deeper ambition: to redefine how disability and technologies like A.I. can evolve together.

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Following his death in 2022, the Scott-Morgan Foundation (SMF) carried forward his mission. The organization began translating Scott-Morgan’s philosophy of dignity-by-design into real-world technology. One of those efforts took shape through Bernard Muller, the Foundation’s chief technologist, who is fully paralyzed by ALS. Muller began architecting and co-developing what would become VoXAI.

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