Voice loss help

[roomeer]

I care for an elderly lady who has dementia. She gets great comfort each evening from a phone call from her daughter 250miles away. Unfortunately her daughter has recently been diagnosed with tongue cancer and will soon begin chemotherapy and radiotherapy. She will lose her voice for some time. Is there anything out there that we can use and prepare for when this happens. I’m thinking a gadget of some sort that she types into but will speak using her daughter’s voice. You’d think in this day and age there would be something that does this?

Can her daughter ask her speech therapist about this? Im sure technology is available.

It might be worth looking at the Whispp app.

I don’t know any specific ones but I can guarantee there will be AI products that you load some clips of you speaking into, that will then reproduce your voice with whatever you type.

Yes, AI absolutely can do this. You just need to figure out the platform to use, but unfortunately, it’s how people make fraudulent recordings of people all the time.

In addition, the daughter could also record some voice notes for her to listen to. Depending on how advanced her dementia is, simply hearing her voice rather than having a conversation may be reassuring for her.

The technology is available but quite restricted as it requires significant time for voice banking. There is a project at Edinburgh uni for example, for mnd patients. Maybe she could voice note certain phrases to start with.

I am currently undergoing treatment for head and neck cancer.
I did lose my voice when the main tumour was removed for a couple of days but throughout chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment my speech has come and gone, often I slur my words when the swelling is particularly bad but thankfully I haven't fully lost my voice, I just don't always sound like me.

Being totally honest, a daily conversation with someone, even typed would be difficult - as her Mum has dementia could a series of recorded letters be a solution for interim - her Mum hears her voice which hopefully brings comfort but without the pressure on the daughter?

Thankyou all for replying. The lady who has dementia has a good understanding of things at the moment, she often forgets things and struggles to find her words. Loses the thread of her sentences. I’m worried that she will begin to decline if she can’t have conversations with her daughter. It’s likely they will go several months once treatment begins without seeing each other. The daughter will be having radiotherapy on both sides and has been told it will affect her speech, swallowing and eating.