--- title: After losing his voice to cancer, this founder is... description: Konrad Zieliński, who lost his voice to cancer and later earned a PhD on bionic systems for laryngectomees, founded Uhura Bionics in 2023 to build noninvasive... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/after-losing-his-voice-to-cancer-this-founder-is-building-glasses-for-voice--wtb2qk9bz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: After losing his voice to cancer, this founder is building ‘glasses for voice’ | daily.dev og:description: Konrad Zieliński, who lost his voice to cancer and later earned a PhD on bionic systems for laryngectomees, founded Uhura Bionics in 2023 to build noninvasive... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/after-losing-his-voice-to-cancer-this-founder-is-building-glasses-for-voice--wtb2qk9bz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WTb2Qk9bz.png og:image:alt: After losing his voice to cancer, this founder is building ‘glasses for voice’ og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # After losing his voice to cancer, this founder is building ‘glasses for voice’ **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Konrad Zieliński, who lost his voice to cancer and later earned a PhD on bionic systems for laryngectomees, founded Uhura Bionics in 2023 to build noninvasive wearable voice devices that carry emotional intonation instead of sounding flat and robotic. The company sells a basic device and a premium version called Whitney for $500 and $1,500 respectively, currently marketed as wellness products while pursuing Class I medical device classification in Europe and the U.S. to enable insurance reimbursement. Zieliński estimates the laryngectomee device market at roughly $2 billion and faces competitors like Atos Medical and Laronix. Uhura is part of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026's Startup Battlefield 200. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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