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A sequence that promises to be particularly moving. This Sunday, January 26, 2025, from 7:30 pm on TF1, viewers of “seven to eight” will be able to find an unprecedented of the “portrait of the week” of Audrey Crespo-Mara. For this one, the interviewer met Charles Biétry, the former journalist and director of sports of Canal +. The 81 -year -old man now suffers from Charcot's disease, a pathology preventing him from speaking.
“The words are in my head”
In the daily “Le Parisien” which is published today, Charles Biétry explains: “The words are in my head and I cannot get them out, so we curl up and we may no longer have contact with the outside”. In the article of our colleague, we learn that the one in 1998 became president of Paris SG following Michel Denisot only communicates thanks to a computer. Also, for the program “Seven to eight” hosted by Harry Roselmack, his voice was recreated by artificial intelligence.
-“It is a courageous and luminous testimony, an ode to the life he gives us. His fight to continue laughing with his family, until the end, the memories of a happy professional life, and his disappointed hopes on the bill of the end of life. He evokes the arrangements he has taken to remain master, until the end, of his destiny … I can assure you that none of us will forget this precious moment. Charles, by his life force, breathed everyone“Said Audrey Crespo-Mara to our colleague from“ Parisian ”.
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Concretely, for the interview to be created, Thierry Ardisson's partner had to send his questions beforehand to Charles Biétry. The latter delivered his answers in writing and they were then sent to artificial intelligence software. Software that was able to reproduce the voice of the octogenarian “identically, with his agreement”.
