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Motion · S5M-21945 · 4 Jun 2020

Welcoming the Launch of SpeakUnique

Lodged by Clare Adamson (Scottish National Party) Standard Motion 20 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament marks the launch of SpeakUnique; understands that SpeakUnique creates personalised synthetic voices for use in communication aids, by individuals whose speech is affected by disease; acknowledges that SpeakUnique began in 2012 as a University of Edinburgh research project; notes that the project was in collaboration with The Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research and The Centre for Speech Technology Research; further notes that the services SpeakUnique offers include speech repair, bespoke designed voices and voice banking, which is a term given to the process of recording your voice and using this recording to generate a personalised synthetic voice; understands that this synthetic voice can then be used on a communication aid, where it converts text to speech, allowing an individual to communicate with a voice that is identifiably their own; thanks the many MSPs and staff who contributed to the Voice Bank Research Project, and Christina McKelvie MSP, who hosted the first MND Voice Bank at the Scottish Parliament, encouraging people to make voice recordings that could be used to emulate natural voice tones; commends the team at SpeakUnique on their launch and the positive impact the service will have on those who have lost their voice due to medical conditions such as MND, and wishes everyone involved with the SpeakUnique project the very best for the future.

Supporters (20)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.