411. Robert Schmidtbauer - Building a Voice for My Brother

What do you do when rehab ends but your brother still can't be understood - and nobody offers you a single tool to help? Robert Schmidtbauer is a care partner from Tomahawk, Wisconsin. His younger brother lives with ataxia, and a stroke six years ago made his speech so unclear that strangers understand only 60–70% of what he says. After years of being the "go-between," Robert used AI to build Larry's Speakeasy, a simple $9 aphasia communication app that types or taps and speaks out loud.

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