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A legendarily engaging conversationalist, Jack Edwards asks to text now when a reporter reaches out for comment for a future feature story regarding a different subject.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more German soccer fan Freddy finds fame on World Cup trip, meeting celebs and snagging a White House invite. Next up: Boston.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI prefer text messages because my verbal skills are eroding and I can\u2019t express my ideas as well as I once could,\u201d the former NESN Bruins play-by-play voice explains, via, yes, text.<\/span><\/p>\n

Edwards, as most loyal Bruins fans probably know, suffers from a mysterious medical condition called apraxia.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The condition, which he first noticed in the summer of 2022 and became obvious to NESN viewers not long after, causes halting and slower speech and the occasional slurring of words.<\/span><\/p>\n

Edwards, his speech slowing further, retired following the 2023-24 season, later telling the Globe, \u201cI examined my performance and I decided I couldn\u2019t meet my standards. I accept what I cannot change.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Edwards, now 69 years old, remains in excellent physical health, he says, and is sharp mentally. But he acknowledges that his speech has continued to get worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll is well with me,\u201d he texts, \u201cconsidering the circumstances of my mouth not working.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But while he has lost much of his familiar voice, he has not lost hope, in part because of the natural optimism that he largely retains, and in greater part because of the wonders of science and technology.<\/span><\/p>\n

Edwards has been working with a therapist, Michelle Ganann, at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital to master an AI-aided voice-clone app that duplicates what his voice sounded like during the height of his time in the Bruins broadcast booth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Related: <\/span><\/span>Even Alexi Lalas\u2019s Fox teammates for the World Cup have grown tired of his act<\/div>\n

The app, called a speech assistant, is created by the software company ElevenLabs, the company that cloned actor Val Kilmer\u2019s voice for the movie \u201cTop Gun: Maverick.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The app\u2019s AI knows what the most familiar version of Edwards\u2019s voice sounds like because it has been loaded up with hours of audio from his time in the Bruins broadcast booth.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all expressive me! It\u2019s a miracle because my voice is much thinner than it once was and I mispronounce words a lot,\u201d he texts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNESN vice president of content Josh Jun threw open the doors of the vault and NESN furnished five hours of pure Jack to ElevenLabs. \u201cAll kinds of expressions, from reading tracks of promos to yelling at referees to the postgame rant I went on in 2011 after the Game 7 overtime victory against Montreal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more Diminished star power does little to take shine off World Cup fans\u2019 fun in Foxborough for France-Norway<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s part of that, during which he compared the victory to the Boston Tea Party:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWell, a couple of hundred years ago, a bunch of rowdy radicals charged out of some Boston bars, went down to the dock and dumped the king\u2019s tea into the salty sea. And in doing that, it struck a chord, that rings true even today: That when confronted with imperious conceit, fighting the good fight is not only the right thing to do \u2014 it can be a heck of a lot of a fun.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd who has more fun than us?\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s probably a lot for an AI-driven app to sort out, he is told.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is quite the range of expressions,\u201d he texts.<\/span><\/p>\n

It works like this: Edwards opens the app on his iPad or phone and types in what he wants to say. Then he hits a play button. After a few seconds, the words he typed, in his voice, replicated with help from the audio the AI has been fed, come out.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have phrases I say all time as presets,\u2019\u2019 he texts. \u201cIf I don\u2019t like the pace or tone, they are adjustable, and the app can recreate them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Edwards used the app during his speech at his induction into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame this month.<\/span><\/p>\n

The app is similar, but not identical, to the ElevenLabs device former Channel 4 sports reporter Alice Cook uses to \u201ctalk\u201d after losing her voice to ALS. Cook, as documented by colleague Kevin Paul Dupont, in April 2025, uses the app on an iPad connected to a Bluetooth speaker.<\/span><\/p>\n

Related: <\/span><\/span>Eddie Andelman gave us sports talk radio gold with his no-holds-barred interview of Wade Boggs in 1989<\/div>\n

Edwards has a Bluetooth speaker, but hasn\u2019t used it. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI use my iPhone when I\u2019m mobile and a keyboard and iPad when I\u2019m in conversation at a table,\u201d he texts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Edwards is doing all he can to save his real speaking voice. He\u2019s currently taking part in a clinical trial at Mass General Brigham called transcranial magnetic stimulation. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe doctors in this study think it MIGHT rewire my brain,\u201d he texts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Edwards emphasizes that he is wary of artificial intelligence on most fronts, but appreciates seeing at least one benefit firsthand.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI fear AI is going to get out of control, as most people in the US do,\u201d he texts. \u201cThis is a good side of AI. I will keep doing my daily drills and participating in the clinical trial at MGB in hopes that I can recover some of my faculty of speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the worst-case scenario where it doesn\u2019t come back, this is a way of expressing myself fully, albeit slower because I have to type it out. I need patient conversation partners. My family and friends are compassionate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more Ranking the World Cup group games in Foxborough, from worst to best<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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