Courtesy SWNS/Story By Adam Dutton
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00:19 When I get married, I want to say the most important words in my life with my own voice.
00:26 I want to say I do it at my wedding with a Birmingham voice because I am from Birmingham.
00:32 My electronic voice doesn't tell you where I am from.
00:36 I sound more like a Cyberman out of Doctor Who.
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00:55 I didn't get my first voice until I was five years old when my granddad gifted me my first communication device.
01:04 My first words were "I love you, Mum and Dad."
01:08 Of course I made everyone cry.
01:11 Since then I have earned four of these devices, each with a robotic voice.
01:16 Some make me sound like an old man, and this one makes me sound like someone out of Doctor Who.
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01:25 I am all right, baby.
01:27 See, my current voice doesn't even pronounce Brownies slang correctly.
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01:51 My family come from Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
01:55 It is important to have my own voice because it is part of my identity.
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02:05 I tend to say I love you to Bethan because she is my fiancée.
02:10 Bethan is from Bradley.
02:12 I want to feel like me when I give my wedding reception speech in 2026.
02:19 Then I am going to use my new voice at an Aston Villa game so that for the first time ever I will fit in with the rest of the crowd.
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