# Manus — She Built Her Brother a Voice After Cancer Took His Vocal Cords

- Company: Manus
- Announced: 2026-09-09
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://manus.im/blog/wally
- Record: https://forck.live/items/14700-she-built-her-brother-a-voice-after-cancer-took-his-vocal-cords
- Subject: Manus

Amy, a 58-year-old with no coding background, used Manus to build Wally, a voice aid app for her brother Jamie after he lost his vocal cords to cancer. The app is themed around golf to encourage use and includes prebuilt phrases for urgent medical needs, daily requests, and family messages. Amy is now reaching out to tracheostomy associations to adapt Wally for other speech-impaired individuals.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://manus.im/blog/wally:

> She opened Manus and started architecting. She knew a medical device would sit unused in a drawer, so she wrapped the whole thing in the one subject her brother loves most: golf.

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