From PBS NewsHour.

A new work explores the intersection of art, disability and technology, asking questions like "who has a voice?" and "who gets to be heard?" The opera titled "Sensorium Ex" is both art and advocacy, aimed at giving new voice and opportunities to the disabled, using AI to benefit, rather than harm, and changing the world of opera itself. One of the actors in the opera is 23-year-old Jakob Jordan, who is himself nonverbal. In the performances, he used a new AI technology to give himself an audible voice, complete with pacing and intonation. In an interview with senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown, he used that technology to speak about how assistive communication devices technology, whether AI-based or not, have changed his life.

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