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A system for creating personalized synthetic voices

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We will be demonstrating the ModelTalker Voice Creation System, which allows users to create a personalized synthetic voice with an unrestricted vocabulary. The system includes a tool for recording a speech inventory and a program that converts the recorded inventory into a synthetic voice for the ModelTalker TTS engine. The entire system can be downloaded for use on a home PC or in a clinical setting, and the resulting synthetic voices can be used with any SAPI compliant system.We will demonstrate the recording process, and convert the recordings to a mini-database with a limited vocabulary for participants to hear.

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      Assets '05: Proceedings of the 7th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
      October 2005
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      ISBN:1595931597
      DOI:10.1145/1090785
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      1. Lou Gehrig's disease
      2. amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
      3. augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
      4. speech synthesis
      5. synthetic voices

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