distinctive voice is like getting something back that was stolen," John said.]]> electronic tablets.]]> organization at her school.]]> identities for people with speech disorders who rely on technology to communicate.]]> intertwine two voices."]]> attracted more than 17,000 volunteers from 110 countries, including Priyanka Pandya, a 16-year old from Columbia, Md., who plans to spend her winter vacation recording a string of sentences into her laptop.]]> overwhelming, she said, with donors ages to 91 logging on from all over the world.]]> sample - usually six to ten hours of recordings - from a voice donor, matched by age, gender and region.]]> potential customers, which could include a middle-aged man from Alabama or a little girl from Ireland.]]> cancer or degenerative diseases such as ALS and could eventually become voice recipients.]]> developed her own method for blending voices and turned to crowdsourcing to gain access to enough voices to reflect the diversity of potential customers, which could include a middle-aged man from Alabama or a little girl from Ireland.]]> unique to them."]]> aide to act as his "voice" at school.]]> modifying the donor voice to reflect the qualities of the user's voice.]]> dilemma captured in the acclaimed new television series "Speechless," whose main character, a teenager with cerebral palsy, relies on technology and a personal aide to act as his "voice" at school.]]>