She started VocaliD, the company that launched the voicebank. She plans to spend her winter vacation recording a string of sentences into her computer. The effort to build a worldwide "Human Voicebank" has attracted more than 17,000 volunteers from 110 countries. Then she asked friends to do the same. Some were able to record their own voices before they lost the ability to talk. Some are practicing English or doing community service. The effort to build a worldwide "Human Voicebank" has attracted more than 17,000 volunteers from 110 countries. Patel is also a speech professor on leave from Northeastern University. Some of the first customers say they are happy with the results. She developed her own way of blending voices and turned to the online world for help. His voice had become unclear to everyone except his wife and youngest son. The effort to build a worldwide "Human Voicebank" has attracted more than 17,000 volunteers from 110 countries. The main character is a teenager with cerebral palsy, which affects muscle use. Some were able to record their own voices before they lost the ability to talk. She developed her own way of blending voices and turned to the online world for help.