Rebecca Gayheart-Dane speaks onstage on the sixteenth Annual Chrysalis Butterfly Ball on June 3, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.
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The actor Eric Dane, who performed Dr. Mark Sloan on the medical drama Gray’s Anatomy, died final month. Dane was 53, and introduced he had been recognized with ALS final April.
The illness impacts nerves within the mind and spinal wire, robbing an individual of their potential to stroll, breathe and infrequently communicate.
Dane’s widow, Rebecca Gayheart Dane, instructed NPR it was devastating to see his voice slip away.
“He was witty, acerbic, filled with humor, and he at all times had an awesome story,” Gayheart Dane stated. “So, as talking turned tougher for him, I watched and witnessed a few of his pleasure fade, and it was actually arduous and really heartbreaking.”
She is now working with ElevenLabs, a synthetic intelligence firm that makes artificial voice software program. The corporate developed a program that helps folks with everlasting voice loss replicate their voices, together with Eric Dane’s.
Gayheart Dane spoke with All Issues Thought-about host Juana Summers about her function as a caregiver and her complicated emotions about synthetic intelligence.
Take heed to the complete interview by clicking on the blue play button above.
