It's called 'Speak for me' and will arrive later this year.
This is a new feature that Microsoft is working on and which will be integrated into the Windows 11 computer operating system, designed to improve user accessibility.
The American giant, with Copilot Lab, already allows those with visual or language difficulties to interact better with the PC, taking advantage of artificial intelligence, but with 'Speak for me' it wants to go further.
As explained at the fourteenth edition of the Ability Summit online conference, Microsoft will bring the option in an upcoming update of Windows 11. The AI will help people with ALS and other speech disabilities use natural voices to communicate both with recorded messages, for example in Teams chats, as well as live during video conferences.
All this will be made possible by the reproduction of your own tone and cadence, thanks to the software's training on clips of speech, if available.
In this way, the AI will try to replicate the user's original voice, which will also be able to make the avatars available in the various Microsoft apps speak, including the Mesh metaverse.
Another significant update in terms of accessibility concerns Copilot, which will be able to read the content displayed on the screen more precisely, responding to a voice command or pressing a button on the keyboard.
During the Ability Summit, Microsoft also recalled Seeing AI, an application available since last December on Android, which uses the smartphone camera to tell what is in the surrounding environment and thus support those with visual difficulties.
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