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I'd like to start by saying
that certain days can change history.

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For example, September the 11th.

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On that day, a series of terrible events
changed the history of the world forever.

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Maybe it's just a coincidence,

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but also on September 11th
my daughter Clara was born.

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On that day, a series of terrible events
left her with cerebral palsy.

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This is my family, my wife Aline,
and our daughter Clara

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who due to a medical error
is unable to walk or talk.

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And from the moment I learned
what had happened to my daughter,

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empowering people with disabilities
became a passion for me.

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We started working to change lives,
not just for my daughter

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but for thousands of people
with disabilities, in Brazil and abroad.

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Imagine the worst kind of prison.
Would it be solitary confinement?

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For millions of people with disabilities,
their bodies are a prison.

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There is no worse prison
than your own body.

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Just like my daughter, many people
are aware, intelligent,

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but they're trapped inside bodies
which don't obey their commands.

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How do these people communicate?

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Usually, they communicate using cards,

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that was how I'd communicate
with my daughter.

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If she wanted an apple, for example,

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I had to make a card
with the drawing of an apple

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so she could sort of point to it.

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This was very complicated.

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That's when we decided to create Livox.

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It's a software, a platform,

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that allows people with disabilities
to communicate, and also learn.

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For the first time in history,

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artificial intelligence
and contextual awareness was used

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to create intelligent algorithms specially
made for people with disabilities.

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Livox has intelligent algorithms

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for motor, cognitive
and visual disabilities.

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Regardless of the level
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Livox adjusts itself for each
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Let me give you an example.

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Unfortunately, there isn't enough time
to show all the algorithms that Livox has,

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but one of the examples
I can tell you is in relation to touch.

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People with disabilities
cannot touch the tablet like we can.

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They hit the screen,
swipe their hand, touch it incorrectly.

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They cannot aim exactly
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This was a very serious problem.

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So one of Livox algorithms
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If someone without a disability
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Livox knows that this person
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But, if a disabled person
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Livox calculates how many fingers
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if that person is swiping
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how likely they are to click on a certain
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and it corrects the imperfect touch
of the disabled person.

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One of the most interesting things
in Livox is that you can create profiles.

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I'm also the director
of a large physical therapy clinic

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and we've tested Livox
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So we were able
to transform this knowledge,

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this know-how that we have
with disabled people, in algorithms.

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So Livox has been widely used,
for example, in schools.

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Here we can see a profile, 
for example: high-functioning autism,

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Clara Pereira, visual impairment
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So imagine, for example,

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teachers who have just got a student
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If they select autism in Livox,

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Livox will adjust for the visual,
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of someone with autism.

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If they receive another student
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and they select cerebral palsy,

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Livox will adjust for the visual, 
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of someone with cerebral palsy;

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characteristics which are totally
different from autism, for example.

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There are no limits
of deficiencies for Livox.

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You can create endless diagnostic profiles
for endless types of disabilities.

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Besides communication, disabled people
can do much more through Livox.

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For example, they can play instruments
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They can learn to read, write,
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use in therapies, and learn 
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Now stop and think for a moment.

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Until recently, these people
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Imagine the impact
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Now they can do so much more.

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How many people need Livox?

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Brazil has about 50 million
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Of these 50 million people
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15 million, which is roughly equivalent
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are people who need Livox in Brazil.

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They're people with
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amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, autism,

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and other diseases and deficiencies
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Now imagine the whole world.

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According to the World Health Organization

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there are about one billion people
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They are the largest
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We know this, and that's why we created
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and we already cater for around
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People always ask me
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We've talked a lot through Livox, 
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People always ask me what she said
that touched me the most.

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This photo is a very recent photo of her,
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I said to her, "Clara, this is
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This was the most serious photo
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She's watched all the Disney movies. 
Every one of them.

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And through Livox, I asked her
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after all, this is a fantasy
of every girl.

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Which Disney princess
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Who's going to guess?
You're all too shy!

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Who said Ariel? You got full points!
Very good, she said she was Ariel.

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Has anyone here watched
the Ariel movie? Raise your hands.

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I watched it about 200 times
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What touched me the most 
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I'm going to show a part of the movie

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which shows a little
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(Video) Prince: Oh, I see.

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(Yapping)

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Are you OK, miss? I'm sorry
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He's harmless, really...

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You seem very familiar to me. Have we met?

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(Yapping)

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We have met! I knew it!
You're the one I've been looking for!

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What's your name?

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What's wrong? What is it?

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Can't you speak?

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Oh, then you couldn't be who I thought.

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Carlos Pereira: Amazing, right?

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She told me she's Ariel,

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because for most of the time
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Towards the end of the movie some magic
happens that makes Ariel speak again.

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Unfortunately, our lives
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But this doesn't mean
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and we're happy to have created
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that is giving a voice,
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but also to thousands
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throughout Brazil, and the world.

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When we know what goes on
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we can make dreams come true,
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where she met Ariel,
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Look at her face!
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she was finally meeting
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She told me afterward
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when finally meeting Ariel in person.

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The work we're doing
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In Brazil alone we've traveled
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in all the states.

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That's the equivalent of more than
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I've been here several times
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in several cities here inside the state,
bringing technology and social inclusion.

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Our work has also
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In December 2014, I was in Washington,

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where we received an award
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as the technological innovation
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Besides this, in February,
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where we received a UN award for the best
social inclusion app in the world.

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We competed along thousands
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and were very pleased to bring
this award here to Brazil.

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We also have important partners,
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and we've just closed a joint venture deal

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with partners of companies
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Livox has already been translated
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In two weeks' time
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for a final technical meeting,
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in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Google...

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Google got to know about us,
and sent a team to film our story,

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to show in a global event,
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I'd like to show you something
about it in this video.

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[Google I/O. San Francisco,
May 28, 2015]

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[Recife, Brazil]

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(Video) (English) If you have a good idea,
it doesn't matter where you are.

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We are proving that it's possible to make 
money and to make social good as well.

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I met my wife I think 17 to 18 years ago.

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We did everything that we could
for my wife to have a good pregnancy.

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When my daughter was born, she didn't cry.

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Something was very wrong.

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Even though she's disabled,

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I saw that my daughter
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I needed to do something.

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I'm a developer,
and that's why I created Livox.

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It's a software that enables
people with severe disabilities

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to communicate and to learn.

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Through Livox she can read and write.

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There are over one billion people
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Livox is not a product only for Brazil.

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It's a product for the whole world.

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[Keep building.]

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(Video) (English)
So those are some powerful stories.

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They are just some small examples

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of the ways that developers are having
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We are also excited that Carlos 
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Carlos Pereira: This was broadcast
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and I'm happy to say that after this
we started a partnership with Google,

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and we're working
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that will change forever

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the lives of millions of people
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And why did Google
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They wanted to highlight businesses

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that are making a substantial
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I'd also like to say that Livox is real.

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It's not just an idea,
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and it's already changing the lives
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I'd love to tell you
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each of these thousands of people;
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the story of three people
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and how Livox is liberating these people.

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This is the last video.

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(Video) (English) Although Clara
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through Livox she's succeeded
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that was published in a book.

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Maybe she can be a writer in the future.

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(Livox voice) (English) I'm a doll 
that can speak and write.

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(Livox voice) (English) Mouth cancer
did not take away my will to live.

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Livox helped me to overcome
this difficult time of my life.

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(Livox voice) (English) Though my body
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I always wanted to be free.

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With Livox I am able
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And now...

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I'm free.

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CP: Incredible!

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It allows an eight-year-old girl,
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to learn to read and write a story
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which was the case of my daughter.

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It allows a person who had mouth cancer,

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who lost all of his teeth, tongue and jaw,
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to communicate and even attend
his customers by phone through Livox.

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It also allows a man
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who was living a limited life,
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to say he wants to have a beer,

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say that he wants to go skydiving,

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and actually goes skydiving,
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The change in the life of this man
who skydived was so big

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that he recently found
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So, it's an incredible change
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I'd like to end with a phrase
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"If all my possessions were taken
from me with one exception,

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I would choose to keep
the power of communication,

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for by it I would soon
regain all the rest."

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Thank you very much.

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(Applause)