voicebox

Time after time

Phonemes are to speech what letters are to writing

There are 44 of them

Consonants Vowels R – controlled vowels Diagraphs

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Capture a person’s voice pronouncing

each phoneme…

…throw in a few sentences

for intonation…

…and you have the building blocks of their

voice.

Which is exactly what Voicebox does

It uses the microphone in your phone to capture the building blocks of your voice

Five simple stages of phoneme capture and the core voice model is built

Why Voicebox?

CapturingEmotions.

Plutchik's wheel of emotions.8 Basic Emotions each with 3 levels of intensity:

• Joy• Trust• Fear• Surprise• Sadness• Disgust• Anger• Anticipation

Phone Call.

Collect raw emotions, label them and translate into future applications.

Phone Call: pick up on test words

Record & Report on

Wavelengths

Survey on Results

The Emotional Assessment• Notification following the phone calls

• Name your predominant emotion of the conversation

• Rate your emotion in terms of intensity (scale assessment from 1 to 3, where 3 is most intense)

• Pinpoint on a time scale when (beginning/middle/end) was the emotion most prominent in your voice

• Iterative assessment

Iterative Assessment over time =

Personalisation.

Using Voicebox

“…and don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it

happens – the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing

good gets away.”John Steinbeck. A Life in Letters

“Your voice is part of your identity and if this

technique can help you recover it and

communicate in a natural way your quality of life

could be much improved.”Professor Phil Green, Speech and Hearing Research Group, University of Sheffield

“We all take our voices for granted, but it is not until we lose them that

we realise what a marvellous gift the voice

is.”Bernadette Chapman, Laryngectomy Patient