Thank you for your help Paul.  If someone wanted to record a large
number of speech items (single words and phrases), what size of hard
drive would you suggest should be available on the device?

Best wishes, 

Liz

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-----Original Message-----
From: A discussion list for Assistive Technology professionals.
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Sent: 08 July 2008 13:07
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Subject: Re: Voice sampling enquiry

** Interest declared **

Creating a synthesiser from a speech sample needs a lot of specialist
work. I met a man at 
ISAAC Dusseldorf who offered this as a (pricey) service.

Banking sample messages is simple however.  Just save them as .wav files
and they can be 
used easily with AAC software later,  I cannot speak for all software,
but it works fine with 
Teh grid 2 and Windbag.

Best wishes,

Paul

Date sent:      	Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:43:33 +0100
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Subject:        	Voice sampling enquiry
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> We have recently beed approached by a person with a degenerative
> condition who wants to do some voice banking, before their speech
> deteriorates further.  We would really appreciate any advice the group
> can offer regarding how we could go about this, any specific software
> which can be used, what quality the sounds are, and how easy it is to
> use the samples on different voice output communcaition aids.  Finally
> is it possible to take sufficient voice samples to create their own
> synthesised voice - if so what would be needed to achieve this?  


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