nick: jim maxwell is one of around 5,000 people in the uk living with motor neuron disease — a terminal for me. lifting trousers up�*s impossible for me to do. the illness is starting to take a good hold of me now. known as mnd or als, the condition gradually takes away movement from people — and, for almost everyone with it, their voice, too. to actually live in a world where you can't speak and be heard, it sounds — to me, it sounds alien and frightening at the same time. thanks to some new tech, jim's going to record his voice from home, so it can be digitally reproduced if he loses it. it's really important that i do bank this voice so that i can still be seen, still be me. i will always be me is an interactive storybook by intel and dell. created in partnership with rolls—royce, the mnd association and edinburgh—based start—up speakunique, it conveys the effects of mnd written in the first person. it takes around an hour to read — a fraction of the time it would traditionally to record in a professional voiceover booth — and all the recordings from the book are sent here for proces

jim maxwell is one of around 5,000 people in the uk living with motor neurone disease — a terminal illness lifting trousers up is impossible for me to do. the illness is starting to take a good hold of me. known as mnd or als, the condition gradually takes away movement from people. and for almost everyone with it, their voice too. to actually live in a world where you can't speak and be heard, to me it sounds alien and frightening at the same time. thanks to some new tech, jim is going to record his voice from home, so it can be digitally reproduced if he loses it. it is really important that i do bank this voice, so that i can still be seen, still be me. i will always be me is an interactive storybook by intel and dell, created in partnership with rolls—royce, the mnd association and edinburgh—based startup speak unique. it conveys the effects of mnd written in the first person. do you think it is ok? some of them are ok. it takes around an hour to read, a fraction of the time it would traditionally to record in a professional voice—over booth. and all the recordings from the book are se

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alongside him, jim maxwell who also has mnd.he way to live. i will be forever grateful. i will keep you in my thoughts and i will never give in, i will fly the flag for you. do i start wearing tartan? that is the question. rest in peace. commentator: doddie weir, one of scottish rugby's favourite sons... - when he announced his diagnosis in 2017, he took to the pitch with his three sons. he delivered the match ball as scotland faced the all blacks. two weeks ago, he was back at murrayfield, again with his sons. again the crowd stood as one. it was his last public appearance. he remained to the very end a giant of a man. doddie weir, who died on saturday. we can speak now to two people who got to know doddie through his campaigning for motor neurone disease research. former leeds rhinos player, kevin sinfield has raised millions of pounds for the mnd association through a series of extreme challenges. also joining us from new south wales in australia is ed slater, who announced his retirement from professional rugby earlier this

nick: jim maxwell is one of around 5,000 people in the uk living with motor neuron disease — a terminalt our base voice to sound like that one individual. as well as replicating, the company says it's able to restore voices back to healthy—sounding speech. the first three are really fast, but they might be ok if they were slowed down. our system understands what, say, a normal articulation pattern would be. so if someone comes to record and they've noticed that their articulation is slurred, or they have effort in their speech, we can disregard anything that might be part of their disease and retain just what's them. when you talk to me, and i want to listen to... for someone who's been diagnosed with this, - every minute counts. and that process is extremely meaningless, except for- the fact that eventually it generates a voice. - so essentially it's a way to get people to speaki to their loved ones in ways| that can get them to adjust to what's going to happen and what's coming. - dad's always been the life and soul of a party. if you walk into places, he's normally the first person y

nick: jim maxwell is one of around 5,000 people in the uk living with motor neuron disease — a terminalocess is extremely meaningless, except for- the fact that eventually it generates a voice. - so essentially it's a way to get people to speakl to their loved ones in ways| that can get them to adjust to what's going to happen and what's coming. - dad's always been the life and soul of a party. if you walk into places, he's normally the first person you hear. yeah, he's the laugh you hear, the voice you hear. _ yeah. to even still have that, even if it's not coming from him... i think will be great. how important is it to be able to hear your dad's voice once he's gone? sometimes he says stuff and, you know, i hear it and i'm like, "oh, please don't forget that." you know, if i didn't manage to capture it, like... yeah. i think my daughters might be a bit sick of hearing me, but i think it's essential for me. aland deep learningl is improving at a rate that none of us can - actually even comprehend. to me, itjust says- that the fidelity of these systems will start to sound much, much mo

i'll speak to democratic congress elect maxwell alejandro ross, first jim's a member of congress. good evening. i'm mehdi hasan. in 2020, he and his team possessions him as another potential fdr with his desire to build back better and help america recover from the devastation of the pandemic the big and do federal programs. but this week, ballots were being counted in the midterm elections. the results, pretty astonishing. better almost anyone imagined. the president that joe biden resembled the most was john f. kennedy. because not since jfk in 1962 has a first term democratic president had such a strong performance in the midterms. >> this victory belongs to joe biden. it belongs to joe biden and the democrats who got out there and fought for working people. the things we did were important and popular. >> the president's party almost always loses ground in congressional midterms. it's not just conventional wisdom. those are the facts. it has happened in every midterm election since 1946 with one big exception, the election that came one year after the september 11th attacks. b

and activists maxwell frost, he's heading to capitol hill, not to protests gun laws like he has in the past, but to represent florida's tenth district. frost will become the first member of jimives. at 25 years old, he just barely meets the age requirement for being elected to congress. they're also some first made this week with respect to religion according to the council on american islamic relations. at least 146 muslim american candidates ran for local, state, and federal office this year as of yesterday. at least 83 of them were victorious, that is a record. among those is this woman who is not only blue at the state level, but only 23 years old, she will be the first muslim, the first indian american, and the youngest representative elected to the states general assembly. she will become the first muslim women elected to georgia state house of representatives, as well as the first palestinian elected to any public office in the state. joining me now is that state representative, she represents the states 97th district in the county. she was born in jordan and move to the united states at the age of seven, congratulations on your success and historical campaign. how do