Dear Eric,

I have recorded the pts voice before their speech deteriorated and loaded it onto buttons on a Dynavox  device.  We recorded common phrases, as well as stories from their past. This worked beautifully and was relatively easy to do. Dynavox just e-mailed me some information on the process, since I have a current pt who wishes to do this at home. I'm sending the attachments. Hope it helps.

Susan Farnworth, M.S., CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
Providence Tarzana Outpatient Therapy Center
(818) 401-4173
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From: xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Erin Singleton [xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 1:18 PM
To: xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Voice Banking

Hi everyone,

I am sort of surveying other SLP’s that work with AAC to find out who out there is presently doing voice banking, and if so what type of voice banking? I have heard other therapists tell me that they regularly voice bank with their patients but I am curious if they mean phrase banking or do they mean creating a synthesized voice for their patient.  If you do voice bank do you wait until the patient has a device and record it directly to their device or do you record it to your own device and transfer the files later?

I am very curious to find out! I am currently recording my own voice to create a synthesized voice and it’s very time consuming and taxing. Has anyone else done this?

Erin Singleton M.A., CCC-SLP
Neuroscience Outpatient Rehabilitation Center
2335 East Kashian Lane, Suite 301
Fresno, California 93701
Office: (559) 459-6056
Cell: (559) 250-1949
Fax: (559) 459-2957
Email: xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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