Yeah. Reality check. Thank you. > On Mar 26, 2025, at 13:00, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know someone that died within four years of diagnosis of ALS. The thing > was his communication ability was never completely compromised. The period > where something like > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fsynchron.com%2f&c=E,1,-fvGmw1Z4eAMDyXAAYBni9plP7VSKspPRHUVMOx6kwQ32rCxVqHX6uaCkSbLvXUDjdSt_4gOjTeJezCdtXyx9ZWUdSZPgoqlgBl0rNfxdTWG7390&typo=1 > could have helped him was less than three months. To run the wheelchair, I > think semi-automation would be better. Something with radar in all direction > that does something reasonable with a crude (in terms of bits) brain signal. > For example, a fixed function "I want to go to the refrigerator" signal where > the robotics takes over, instead of smashing into it with the wheelchair > indicated by a poorly modulated hand gesture. By the time things got bad, > the quality-of-life issues were more about maintaining steady respiration, > and the need for assistance didn't need to be communicated verbally. It was > obvious. He said he spent most of the day thinking about his breathing. > Imagine if every day was like doing intervals.. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Santafe > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 8:47 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] intgegration > > Here’s maybe a fun one. > > Parkinsons progresses slowly, also ALS. > > I remember being in rooms with Hawking, who sounded like the Wizard of Wor of > the same era. > > I can imagine, if you get a new generation voice-producer, not wanting your > identity to be taken over by one of the stock readers. But you could just > start making inclusive recordings of your own speech, in all different > settings, for years in the early phases of the disease, and then have a > customized voice-generator trained to perpetuate you after the disease > impairs you. > > One could almost imagine something akin to autotune, which would take your > impaired speech in real-time, and convert it to a broadcast speech stream in > the unimpaired style. > > Probably 15 companies are already doing this, since it’s kind of obvious. > > That was triggered by the article’s comments on using intracranial generation > for people with full speech impairment. > > Eric > > > >> On Mar 26, 2025, at 11:28, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This comes to mind.. >> >> https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/08/15/releases-20230811/ >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen >> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 3:27 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] intgegration >> >> This is the driver for my doubt. 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