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a footnote to voice banking - Tom used ModelTalker on a pc, had bought new microphone to get good quality recording and the whole process was interrupted and came to an end bc ModelTalker recording did not work any longer. According to their support is was a browser update that made the whole process not work any longer. Tom tried a few times later - hoping their programmers would catch up and eventually gave up as his voice had deteriorated too much.
He used whatever he had already recorded (about 60% of the sentences) to produce a 'voice' but we quickly figured out that it was quite some fun to use the voices that came with his operating system and ended up not using the recorded voice.
Much luck on your endeavor!
I also recently heard a report on NPR about a company in Eastern Europe (?) that has developed really good technology for imitating voices and while listening I thought that it would be of interest to the ALS community - possibly too expensive... I cannot remember the name of the company/software - it might have been "Speechmorphing" (I did a google search on NPR and generating speech - not sure whether the result and the piece I listened to about 1-3 months ago are the same - but maybe someone else has listened to this piece and remembers more?
He used whatever he had already recorded (about 60% of the sentences) to produce a 'voice' but we quickly figured out that it was quite some fun to use the voices that came with his operating system and ended up not using the recorded voice.
Much luck on your endeavor!
I also recently heard a report on NPR about a company in Eastern Europe (?) that has developed really good technology for imitating voices and while listening I thought that it would be of interest to the ALS community - possibly too expensive... I cannot remember the name of the company/software - it might have been "Speechmorphing" (I did a google search on NPR and generating speech - not sure whether the result and the piece I listened to about 1-3 months ago are the same - but maybe someone else has listened to this piece and remembers more?