Voice Banking to Support People Who Use Speech-Generating Devices: New Zealand Voice Donors' Perspectives

Purpose Voice banking is the process of recording an individual's speech to create a personalized synthetic voice to use on speech-generating augmentative and alternative communication devices. Thi...

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