Team 7's presentation for #truehack day - a simple app that captures your distinctive accent, intonation, inflection and emotion and then uses them to translate any written text in as close to your natural language as possible.

1. Time after time

5. Phonemes
are to speech what
letters are to writing

6. There are 44 of them
Consonants Vowels
R – controlled
vowels
Diagraphs
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7. Capture a person’s voice
pronouncing each
phoneme…

8. …throw in a few sentences
for intonation…

9. …and you have the
building blocks of their
voice.

10. Which is exactly what Voicebox does

11. It uses the microphone in your phone to
capture the building blocks of your voice

13. Five simple stages of phoneme capture and
the core voice model is built

14. Why Voicebox?

15. Capturing
Emotions.

16. Plutchik's wheel of emotions.
8 Basic Emotions each
with 3 levels of intensity:
• Joy
• Trust
• Fear
• Surprise
• Sadness
• Disgust
• Anger
• Anticipation

17. Phone Call.

18. Collect raw emotions, label them and
translate into future applications.
Phone Call:
pick up on test
words
Record &
Report on
Wavelengths
Survey on
Results

19. The Emotional Assessment
• Notification following the phone calls
• Name your predominant emotion of the
conversation
• Rate your emotion in terms of intensity (scale
assessment from 1 to 3, where 3 is most intense)
• Pinpoint on a time scale when
(beginning/middle/end) was the emotion most
prominent in your voice
• Iterative assessment

20. Iterative Assessment
over time =
Personalisation.

21. Using Voicebox

27. “…and don’t worry about
losing. If it is right, it happens
– the main thing is not to
hurry. Nothing good gets
away.”
John Steinbeck. A Life in Letters

28. “Your voice is part of your
identity and if this technique can
help you recover it and
communicate in a natural way
your quality of life could be
much improved.”
Professor Phil Green, Speech and Hearing Research Group, University of Sheffield

29. “We all take our voices for
granted, but it is not until we
lose them that we realise
what a marvellous gift the
voice is.”
Bernadette Chapman, Laryngectomy Patient