Voice Preservation
Preserve your own voice as synthetic speech.
For individuals diagnosed with speech or language disorders – resulting from ALS or other conditions such as aphasia, dysarthria or apraxia – capturing the essence of their voice before losing it is a crucial step in preserving their identity.
Create a digital copy of your voice
‘My-Own-Voice’ offers end users the possibility to keep speaking and communicating, not only by using speech synthesis as a voice companion, but also by using their own voice, synthetically re-created, helping to fully maintain the user’s identity. ‘My-Own-Voice’ can already be performed in up to 16 languages and new languages will regularly be added.
‘My-Own-Voice’ creates a synthetic voice, very much like the user’s own, that can be employed with an assistive device to read any sentence, keeping the essence of the original voice in terms of timbre, accent and intonation.
For individuals who have already lost their voice, they can ask a family member, a close relative or a friend, to donate their voice, offering the end user the possibility to speak with a voice that sounds familiar and unique.
Check out the video made by John Costello, Director of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Augmentative Communication Program, using and commenting on his own voice created with My-Own-Voice. Thank you John Costello for your support.
Esteban Bullrich, , a well known Argentinian politician, relies on My-Own-Voice to continue speaking with a digital version of his voice, as he is struggling with his ability to speak. Read the full news here
Meet Maurice Foissac, a user of My-Own-Voice, in a TV report made by French TV France3 and please come behind the scene, in Acapela office.
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Check out the short video made by Eric, who is using its digital voice, made with My-Own-Voice service, based on the BCH Message Banking Process*(TM), of 4500 banked existing messages. The remaining .wav files were transcribed and then uploaded to Acapela to 'double dip' and create a synthetic voice.
Look at TechKnow – an Al Jazeera report featuring ‘My-Own-Voice’ - Thank you Maggie Mahoney, from Grasp Assistive Technologies.
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