Rupal Patel
Dr. Rupal Patel is an Indian American speech scientist and the CEO and founder of VocaliD.[1][2][3] VocaliD is a company that customizes digital voices for people with speech impairments. She collects the limited sounds that her patients are able to make, and matches them with a donated voice from their “Voice Bank”.[1][2][3] This way, people with speech impairments can have computerized voices that match their identities.[2] For example, a young girl's voice will not sound like an adult man.[2] She began research in 2007 and later founded VocaliD in 2014. She has also received grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. She gave a TED talk about her work in 2013. It convinced 1,500 people to sign up to donate their voice.[4][2]
She has a masters, bachelor's degree, and a doctorate in psychology, speech acoustics, and speech-language pathology.[1][3] Patel was on the faculty in the department of bio-behavioral sciences at the Teachers College of Columbia University in 2003.[1]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Gray, J. D. (July 2019). "On a Mission to Help People Sound Like Themselves: Rupal Patel and her company VocaliD build personalized voices by blending crowdsourced samples". The ASHA Leader. 24 (7): 28–30. doi:10.1044/leader.LML.24072019.28. ISSN 1085-9586.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Rathore, R. (2016, Jul 15). Rupal Patel: Changing lives, one voice at a time. India - West Retrieved from ProQuest Diversity Collection.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Wire, A. B. (2014-03-26). "Indian American scientist Rupal Patel at the forefront of synthetic voice technology - The American Bazaar". Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ↑ Dockser, Corey (December 6, 2017). "Northeastern professor creates voices for the voiceless".