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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A Pittsburgh-area man is not just giving people living with ALS a voice. He is giving them their own voice. David Bess, recently created “Talk to Me, Goose!”, named after the character Goose from “Top Gun.” This is an AI-powered text-to-speech app that uses voice cloning to help people with speech loss sound like themselves again. Bess lives in Mt. Washington with his wife, Anna, who was diagnosed with ALS at the age of fifty-seven.