Helen Whitelaw, 76, appeared on ITV s Tipping Point in 2019, winning almost £3,000.
A year later, she was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, which makes speech slurred due to failing muscles in the tongue, lips, vocal cords and chest.
But engineers have now used her Tipping Point footage to capture the sound of her voice and build it into a computer aid that enables her to express herself more clearly.
A pensioner whose ability to talk was lost to illness has had her own voice reconstructed on computer – thanks to an earlier appearance on a TV gameshow. Helen Whitelaw, 76, appeared on ITV s Tipping Point in 2019, winning almost £3,000
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