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A student with cerebral palsy has found a new voice with a Walsall accent after a two-year search.

Daniel Challis, who uses a communication device to speak, appealed on social media in 2022 for people with a regional accent to help.

The 20-year-old, from Aldridge, in the West Midlands, has relied on the equipment since the age of nine and said he was fed up of "sounding like a robot".

Eli Lane was chosen by Daniel after people were asked to submit a recording of themselves reading the first page of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Mr Lane, who was brought up in Walsall and is now studying drama in New York, said recording the 3,500 words that will make up Daniel's vocabulary had been an emotional experience.

Daniel's mother Sarah Challis said the family had been "overwhelmed" by the number of people who wanted to offer their voices after the appeal was aired on 大象传媒 Radio WM.

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