Thank You!
Thank you for your registration. You will shortly receive your registration information by email. You should keep the email so you have a record of the username you chose. If you have any questions or problems, or if you do not receive this confirmation email within 24 hours, please contact us.
People registered as clinicians, proxy voice bankers, donors or others assisting with voice banking can use our software and even create a complete voice without being charged our standard fee. For clinicians and others who are assisting a voice banker, this allows you to learn about the process and better offer assistance. Clinicians may also want to build a complete voice that they can use to demonstrate to their patients what the synthetic voice will sound like when finished. Donors and proxy voice bankers will also be permitted to have a copy of their ModelTalker voice that they can use for personal, non-commercial purposes.
Your next step is to decide how you would like to do your recording. You have two choices:
- Do your recording online using the Chrome web browser (recommended)
- Download and install a Windows PC recording program (if you have windows and a poor internet connection)
If you have a reliable high speech internet connection, we recommend using our online recording tool. To use the online recorder, you must use a recent version of the Google Chrome browser; neither Safari nor Internet Explorer are presently compatible and recent changes to Firefox have made it problematic. The online recorder has an interactive setup and training process that will help you get started with the recording.
The Windows program, called MTVR, should work on most recent Windows PCs or Laptops and some Windows Notebooks or Tablets running Windows XP or later. It records your speech directly to your PC disk drive. You then upload the speech data to our server after each recording session. A tutorial on the recording process is included with the software. MTVR may be preferable if you do not have a broadband internet connection because you do not need to transmit much data back and forth while recording. However, MTVR has tended to be a bit more difficult for users to set up initially, and it does not provide feedback on speaking rate, which we believe to be an important factor in creating a good synthetic voice.
In the following, select which recording method you want to use and then click [Continue] to either download MTVR, or start using the online recording method. If you are not ready to do either at this time, click [Exit] instead. You will be able to return to www.modeltalker.org, login using your ModelTalker username and password and return to this page whenever you are ready to proceed.