Apple on Thursday unveiled a heartwarming film titled ‘Lost Voice’ which puts the spotlight on two new accessibility features that were recently rolled out, ahead of International Day for People with Disabilities that falls on December 3. The features — Personal Voice and Live Speech — were rolled out with iOS 17 and illustrate how powerful they can be through a beautiful story.

Millions of people are at risk of losing their ability to speak due to a wide range of conditions such as muscular dystrophy or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known internationally as motor neurone disease (MND). “Personal Voice uses secure on-device machine learning to sample and recreate your own voice, which means if you ever subsequently lose the ability to speak, you can continue to communicate through your iPhone, iPad or Mac (using another new feature called Live Speech) — and still sound like you,” according to Apple.