AN INCLUSIVE APPROACH TO CREATING A PALETTE OF SYNTHETIC VOICES FOR GENDER DIVERSITY
Éva Székely,
biträdande professor, Tal, Musik och Hörsel, KTH, Stockholm
Nonbinary individuals who use speech-generating devices to communicate often face challenges in finding a synthetic voice that suits their gender identity and expression and also facilitates their communicative needs.
This talk on Världsröstdagen April 14th describes a research prototype of a system developed to create a variety of synthetic voices based on recordings of gender-expansive speakers, that can be modified along various dimensions, such as the perceived vocal tract length.
To ensure that the voices resonate more authentically with users’ identities and expressions, we take an inclusive approach, where participants from the gender-expansive community contribute to the design and evaluation of the voices.
Världsröstdagen 2024. 14 april 2024 kl 13.00–16.30.
Kungl Musikhögskolan, Valhallavägen 105, Stockholm.
Fri entré.
