When doctors told her they had to remove her tongue and voice box to save her life from the cancer that had invaded her mouth, Sonya Sotinsky sat down with a microphone to record herself saying the ...

When doctors told her they had to remove her tongue and voice box to save her life from the cancer that had invaded her mouth, Sonya Sotinsky sat down with a microphone to record herself saying the ...

Marty Kedian, left, and his wife, Gina DeFeudis. Kedian lost the ability to speak because of a rare form of laryngeal cancer. With a voice box transplant, he's now regained that function. “It’s such a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man has regained his voice after surgeons removed his cancerous larynx and, in a pioneering move, replaced it with a donated one. Transplants of the so-called voice ...

Sonya Sotinsky recorded herself talking and reading books to preserve a critical element of her personality: her voice. After surgery for oral... When doctors told her they had to remove her tongue ...

After an oral cancer diagnosis, Sonya Sotinsky had her tongue and larynx removed. She later found a way to deploy an AI-generated voice to express herself, complete with an authentic New Jersey accent ...

Sonya Sotinsky sits at Crane Cove Park in San Francisco on March 25. Sotinsky was diagnosed with Stage 4 tongue cancer and underwent surgery to remove her tongue, larynx and other structures. She then ...

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