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.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Team Gleason has generously agreed to cover the cost of ModelTalker voice banking for all eligible individuals. Eligible voice bankers are persons living in the US with a confirmed diagnosis of ALS who are not already supported by another organization or clinic. To have our $100 USD fee waived, you must click the Apply for Support from Team Gleason below.
Whether you pay directly or arrange with an approved organization for support, the charge is a one-time fee. Once the fee is paid, you may download as many copies of your voice as you need for different operating systems or devices and we will keep a backup copy of your voice in our archive. For more information regarding our fee policy, and possible financial assistance, please see our FAQ regarding fees for more detailed information.
Your next step is to decide how you would like to do your recording. You have two choices:
- Download and install a Windows PC recording program
- Do your recording online using the Chrome web browser
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.
If you have a reliable high speech internet connection and/or you do not have access to a Windows PC, you should use our new 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.
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.test.modeltalker.com, login using your ModelTalker username and password and return to this page whenever you are ready to proceed.