First AI-voiced speech delivered in UK's Parliament

Baroness Jane Campbell of Surbiton, a prominent UK disability rights campaigner who has spinal muscular atrophy, used an AI-generated recreation of her voice to address the House of Lords during the Second Reading of the Health Bill, marking the first known use of an AI voice by a UK parliamentarian in either chamber. Developed with ElevenLabs using historical recordings of her speech, the cloned voice allowed her to deliver her own words with tonal and emotional expression that her condition had limited for decades, while an assistive device played the speech in the chamber. Her remarks advocated for maintaining and expanding access to Personal Health Budgets, which support people in England with treatments, equipment, and personal care. The event followed earlier procedural accommodations that enabled her participation in parliamentary debate, and it was presented by Campbell, the Lord Speaker, and ElevenLabs as an example of AI’s potential to improve accessibility and independence for people with voice loss.

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