If you are:

  • A clinical professional such as a speech/Language Pathologist or Therapist who works with patients doing banking
  • A family member or friend interesting in helping someone else with voice banking

We encourage you to register here so we can help you to help others with voice banking. Voice banking remains an experimental and sometimes very challenging process, especially for people who are unfamiliar with computer technology, audio recording, and speech technology. It is doubly challenging for users who may be under significant life stress at the same time they are trying to tackle voice banking. It is not necessarily a technology that is ready for everyone!

We are starting to build out resources on this website specifically geared to helping professionals and others in assisting with voice banking. Since 2016, we have hosting regular web-based phone-in “office hours” to further help answer questions and receive your feedback on how we can improve this process.

As a first step, we strongly encourage you to register on our site and go through the process of building your own synthetic voice. There is no better way to gain a clear understanding of voice banking and learn what you need to know to help patients make informed decisions. You may also end up with a voice that you can use in discussing this option with patients.

The process, virtually identical to the process for people who are actually doing voice banking, is:

  1. Register with us to create a secure account.
  2. Choose the recording method you want to use: MTVR (Windows only) or our web-based recording tool.
    • If using MTVR, install it, go through the tutorial, and get set up to record.
    • If using the web recorder, follow our interactive online training.
  3. Record 10 screening sentences, upload them to our server, and wait for an email from us.
    • If everything is fine, we will provide instructions for moving on to step 4.
    • If we see any problems, we can suggest ways to fix them and may ask you to repeat step 3.
  4. Record a voice-banking inventory of sentences. As our technology has improved over the years, the amount of recording needed has significantly decreased and our instructions for how to speak when recording have changed as well. Our latest “Gen3” inventory consists of about 300 sentences that are designed to elicit more expressive speech for our new generative AI voices to model. We could easily create very realistic personal voices with fewer than half that number of recordings, but with the 300 sentences we are able to capture more of each individual’s expressive speech qualities. We also continue to provide a standard voice-banking inventory of over 3000 sentences intended more for creating older-style concatenative speech voices, as well as the ability for clients to add custom sentences of their own design, e.g., for message banking, to either Gen3 or standard inventories.
  5. Choose the inventory (we recommend the Gen3 inventory) and record at least 150 sentences. Then request your voice and we will build a downloadable voice installer for your computer, mobile device, or speech generating device.