Voice banking
Also known as: Voice preservation, Speech banking
The process of recording and storing samples of a person's natural voice so that a synthetic version can be created for future use with text-to-speech systems. Voice banking is particularly important for people with degenerative conditions like ALS or motor neuron disease who will eventually lose the ability to speak, allowing them to maintain a personalized synthetic voice that retains characteristics of their identity rather than using a generic computer voice.
Category: assistive technology · speech · augmentative and alternative communication
Related: Text-to-speech · Augmentative and alternative communication · Motor speech disorder