3/7/2024 0 Comments Ted voice ted voice changer![]() ![]() So how do you go about building this voice? Well, you have to find someone who's willing to be a surrogate. Is it raspy, is it breathy? And we take what we can from those vocalizations and use them in the process where we generate a voice for her that sounds like her. PATEL: And from that we can gather the pitch of her voice, the quality of her voice. RAZ: With a girl named Samantha, and Samantha has a very rare speech disorder which makes it impossible for her to speak. ![]() I wanted to harness these residual vocal abilities and build voices that could be customized for them. PATEL: You probably didn't understand what they said, but I hope that you heard their unique vocal identities. (SOUNDBITE OF PEOPLE WITH SPEECH DISORDERS SPEAKING) RUPAL PATEL: I'm going to play you now a sample of two people actually who have severe speech disorder. GUY RAZ, BYLINE: Rupal Patel is a speech scientist and a professor at Northeastern University in Boston and she's figured out a way to create new voices, customized voices, for people who use synthetic speech people who, for whatever reason - autism or cerebral palsy or stroke - cannot talk. Synthetic speech though can be cold and impersonal, but a scientist in Boston wants to change that. It's actually the generic voice of men and women who use computers to speak for them. You may recognize this as the voice of Stephen Hawking, the physicist. STEPEHN HAWKING: Here did we come from? Are we alone in the universe? ![]()
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