One of the most devastating results of motor neuron disease (MND), all the more generally known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease in the US, is that it eventually removes the capacity of the individuals who have it to talk. However, similar to it vows to do in a lot of different areas, artificial intelligence could before long help MND patients better adapt to their condition because of a new tool created by Rolls-Royce and its R² Data Labs.

With help from the Motor Neurone Disease Association and organizations including Intel and Microsoft, Rolls-Royce built up a new tool called Quips. It utilizes artificial intelligence in combination with a procedure called voice banking to get familiar with the exceptional way its client talks before they’ve lost the capacity to talk. Voice banking is something MND patients can do before they begin to lose their voice. By recording clips of their speech, doctors can utilize the samples to make a synthetic voice that the individual can afterward use to speak with when their condition worsens.

While the tool is still early in development, the MND Association says it will likewise enable patients to communicate “closer to real-time” than with any at present existing system. The AI can do this by tuning in on the discussion a patient is having with somebody. Because of the setting of the discussion, Quips will at that point propose numerous reactions without the individual having to type anything.

Also, it will do its best to talk utilizing a similar complement and colloquialisms that its client did when they could talk. Roll-Royce claims it can likewise adapt to explicit social situations, realizing that it should talk contrastingly when its client is at work, home example at a bar. It’ll even throw in slang when the situation calls for it. In the one example Rolls-Royce flaunted, the Quips client was inquired as to whether they wanted a beverage. One of the recommendations the AI concocted was to request tea.

The organization says it wants to integrate the AI into a portion of the tools MND patients as of now use to communicate. In any case, it didn’t state precisely when Quips will make it out of the lab.