Paid Voice Recording Session in Denmark

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What This Session Involves

Help Give a Voice to People Who Have Lost Theirs

Acapela Group builds the voices inside speech devices: the technology that lets someone who has lost the ability to speak choose their words and hear them spoken aloud, in a voice that sounds human rather than robotic.

Those voices have to be built from real human speech. That is what this session is: you read everyday sentences aloud in a studio, in your ordinary speaking voice.

We are recording American accents from across the US, so that someone using a speech device can have a voice that sounds like where they are from, instead of a generic one.

Your recordings are used to build new voices, not to copy yours. No voice will be created to sound like you, and your recordings will never be used to identify you.

How it works

Pick the time that suits you here, and we hold that slot for you

Record a short voice sample from home: a computer is best, a phone is fine

Acapela listen to it and check the accent fits, usually within a few days

We email you the moment they answer, and your slot is then confirmed

You sign the participant agreement

You come to the location you choose, where Gustav meets you, spend about 1.5 hours reading aloud, and get paid

Session timeline

5 minWelcome and microphone setup

~80 minRecording, with short breaks

5 minWrap-up and payment

What a recording session looks like, with Gustav at the microphone. Sessions are held at Roskilde University or at DTU in Lyngby, and Gustav meets you at whichever you choose.

Who Is Running This Project

Hosted by Spire Light in collaboration with Acapela Group

Spire Light manages recruitment and recording sessions for this project on behalf of Acapela Group. Acapela builds the voices used in speech-assistive devices for people who have lost the ability to speak.

Spire Light

×Acapela Group

Contact person

Gustav AggeboeCo-founder & CTO, Spire Light

gustav@spirelight.ai

+45 21 22 29 38

Privacy And Data Use

Your recordings are used to develop and train speech technology, including the synthetic voices used in speech-assistive devices: this is commercial development work
No synthetic voice will be created to imitate or reproduce your individual voice
Your recordings will never be used to identify or verify you
The recordings are never sold or published as an audio dataset
You sign a participant agreement before recording, and you keep a copy
You can ask questions before the session begins
You can cancel or reschedule if needed

New voices, not a copy of yours.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will there be a voice out there that sounds like me?

Is this used commercially?

Does my accent matter?

Why do I record a voice sample?

Is the session recorded?

How long does the session take?

How do I get paid?

Where does the session take place?

Can I reschedule?

Questions before booking?

Gustav runs the sessions and is happy to answer anything, by phone or email.

gustav@spirelight.ai +45 21 22 29 38

Help Give a Voice to People Who Have Lost Theirs

Those voices have to be built from real human speech. That is what this session is: you read everyday sentences aloud in a studio, in your ordinary speaking voice.

We are recording American accents from across the US, so that someone using a speech device can have a voice that sounds like where they are from, instead of a generic one.

Your recordings are used to build new voices, not to copy yours. No voice will be created to sound like you, and your recordings will never be used to identify you.