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So why then the same prosthetic
voice?
(First voice) (Second voice) You probably didn't understand what they said, but I hope that you heard their unique vocal identities.
Dr. Bunnell is an expert in speech synthesis, and what he'd been doing is building personalized voices for people by putting together pre-recorded samples of their
voice
and reconstructing a
voice
for them.
These are people who had lost their
voice
later in life.
But I thought, there had to be a way to reverse engineer a
voice
from whatever little is left over.
Now before I get into the details of how the
voice
is made and let you listen to it, I need to give you a real quick speech science lesson.
So first, we know that the
voice
is changing dramatically over the course of development.
Fact number two is that speech is a combination of the source, which is the vibrations generated by your
voice
box, which are then pushed through the rest of the vocal tract.
Now I told you earlier that I'd spent a good part of my career understanding and studying the source characteristics of people with severe speech disorder, and what I've found is that even though their filters were impaired, they were able to modulate their source: the pitch, the loudness, the tempo of their
voice.
Why don't we take the source from the person we want the
voice
to sound like, because it's preserved, and borrow the filter from someone about the same age and size, because they can articulate speech, and then mix them?
So once you have that in mind, how do you go about building this
voice?
The more speech you have, the better sounding
voice
you're going to have.
We're going to call this database a
voice
bank.
I met her when she was nine, and since then, my team and I have been trying to build her a personalized
voice.
Samantha's
voice
is like a concentrated sample of red food dye which we can infuse into the recordings of her surrogate to get a pink
voice
just like this.
Samantha: This
voice
is only for me.
I can't wait to use my new
voice
with my friends.
I'll never forget the gentle smile that spread across her face when she heard that
voice
for the first time.
For Samantha, her surrogate came from somewhere in the Midwest, a stranger who gave her the gift of
voice.
I imagine a whole world of surrogate donors from all walks of life, different sizes, different ages, coming together in this
voice
drive to give people voices that are as colorful as their personalities.
To do that as a first step, we've put together this website, VocaliD.org, as a way to bring together those who want to join us as
voice
donors, as expertise donors, in whatever way to make this vision a reality.
Well, giving your
voice
can change lives.
About five years ago, we built our very first
voice
for a little boy named William.
When his mom first heard this voice, she said, "This is what William would have sounded like had he been able to speak."
Imagine carrying around someone else's
voice
for nine years and finally finding your own
voice.
INCRA would not only be a European or an American rating agency, it would be a truly international one, in which, in particular, the emerging economies would have an equal interest,
voice
and representation.
LP: Well, this is the state of the art right now, understanding cats on YouTube and things like that, improving
voice
recognition.
And I look at, on your show, actually, I kind of lost my voice, and I haven't gotten it back.
LP: Yeah, and I had this problem with my
voice
stuff.
And her
voice
was the most powerful
voice.
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