Hi AMY, thanks for asking.

No we did not go back to repair the banked messages.  I wish that was possible.

 This only demonstrates that, in this one case, the voice bank  created from message bank  (double dipped the message bank to create the voice bank) actually sounds clear then the banked messages.

Sent from my iPhone please excuse auto corrects

> On Feb 15, 2019, at 6:35 PM, Amy Roman <xxxxxx@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> Hey John,
> These are fantastic developments.  I have a question about the first video and what exactly is happening.
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> Let me know if I have this right-    The user created an Acapela synthesized voice that actually sounded better than their banked messages and then you used the synthesized voice to go back and correct sounds in the banked message?
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> Please post directions for using these two applications together.  Thanks.
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> Sincerely,
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> Amy Roman, MS, CCC-SLP
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> On Fri, 2/15/19, Costello, John (Otolaryngology) <xxxxxx@childrens.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> Subject: Two videos regarding ALS and voice
> To: "xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com>
> Date: Friday, February 15, 2019, 2:58 PM
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> First is using our Message
> Banking(TM) model to create novel voice with Acapela MOV
> (double dipping). After creating this voice where the voice
> bank is CLEARER than the original dysarthric banked
> speech...
>  I am cautiously optimistic that we can continue to learn
> how to help many more people with ALS to preserve their
> voice.
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> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DXqXYdnwD7Lo&d=DwIFaQ&c=qS4goWBT7poplM69zy_3xhKwEW14JZMSdioCoppxeFU&r=tIrH9Vo71mwlBdFSNwt6_YY49Gnk2P6BqruvfmrtxRurZNtwCp-5c-4oTnrNH0cL&m=xkp_XP3iRQcECMlfZv02tHdshVN-gq2hzTYNfUKplok&s=Yy7FMvqUXqeiAk_k6Yhxp2XPvRMNyFpZY9YpapZPVbo&e=
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> Second is showing someone’s
> message bank (that was fully downloaded and pages auto
> created from our free to anyone mymessagebanking.com site)
> and double dipped voice bank, co-existing seamlessly and
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>  stored on the SAME page and speaking together.  We
> have done this double dip for many people now with multiple
> using message and voice bank fully integrated in their SGD.
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> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DxJe3icl7ptE&d=DwIFaQ&c=qS4goWBT7poplM69zy_3xhKwEW14JZMSdioCoppxeFU&r=tIrH9Vo71mwlBdFSNwt6_YY49Gnk2P6BqruvfmrtxRurZNtwCp-5c-4oTnrNH0cL&m=xkp_XP3iRQcECMlfZv02tHdshVN-gq2hzTYNfUKplok&s=k5Cp9z32qMqdsF5BPRFJxFZ-y9WBAErypcxV9Wpv8Lo&e=
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> Costello
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