"After such a long time, I couldn't really remember my voice," Sarah Ezekiel tells BBC Access All.
The onset of motor neurone disease (MND) left Sarah without a voice and the use of her hands at the age of 34.
As they were growing up, her children Aviva and Eric only ever heard her speak through a machine with an emotionless robotic voice.
But 25 years on, artificial intelligence (AI) has recreated their mum's real voice from just eight seconds of audio on a scratchy VHS tape.
The "miracle" Sarah describes began when Bristol-based assistive technology company, Smartbox, asked her for an hour's worth of audio to recreate her voice.
Eventually, an old VHS tape of Aviva as a baby was found, shot on a family camcorder in the 1990s.
Eventually, Simon managed to set Sarah's voice apart from the sound of the blaring TV using ElevenLabs Voice Isolator. »