There is no up-front charge for registration or recording, but there is a $100 USD fee, payable when your final voice is accepted. You will not be able to download and install your completed voice until payment is received. At present, we are only able to accept credit card payments from individual clients. However, there are several organizations that are willing to help offset this cost. After registering, or when logged in at the website, you can view the information at Registration > Support Organizations to see if there is an option appropriate for you. For example, if you are living with ALS in the US, Team Gleason has volunteered to pay the cost of the voice for you.
The payment covers our assistance in helping you to get started with recording, in answering your questions if problems arise, in constructing your final voice, and in maintaining copies of your voice in our archive. At present, we are waiving this fee for those registering to assist others with voice banking (e.g., Clinicians) and for those who are registering to donate a voice for others to use in speech-generating devices. To be eligible as a donor, we will require that you have no speech disorder and that you use high quality or professional-grade recording hardware, ideally in a studio-like environment and we may request that you do additional recording to ensure a high-quality final voice. Donors will be allowed to download a single copy of their voice for personal use only.
In addition to our fee, there are other expenses to keep in mind. To record, you will need a computer and microphone; see this FAQ for our computer recommendations and this FAQ for microphones. Finally, note that what you will receive from us is just a Text-to-Speech voice, and you will probably want to get an app or Speech Generating Device (SGD) from another vendor in order to use it effectively; see this FAQ and this FAQ for more details.