Hello, I’m Gaëtan.
I build VoiceForever to help people with disabilities who are losing, or have already lost, the ability to speak, and the people who care for them.
Why this app
My father has ALS, also known as motor neurone disease or Lou Gehrig’s disease. It is an illness that can take away speech. Thinking of his voice, the one I have heard all my life, is how VoiceForever began.
Losing your speech isn’t only losing a way to communicate. It’s losing part of yourself: the voice your children recognise, the way you say “I love you”, joke, reassure. Synthetic voices say the words, but it isn’t you speaking.
I wanted an app that keeps your own voice, that still works the day your hand no longer follows, thanks to your gaze, and that asks for no account, no subscription, and never sends your voice to a server. An app someone close to you can set up in a few minutes, with no technical knowledge.
VoiceForever is free. I’m building it for my father, and for everyone with a disability who may lose their voice, whatever the cause.
Tell me what would help you
If you live with a disability, or care for someone who does, you know better than I do what really helps day to day. A need, a missing phrase, a gesture that’s too hard, an idea to make the app better for you: please write to me. I read every message myself.
For a technical problem, the Support page explains how to send a report from the app.