Ryan. Alex. Siri. These ###### names of voices that ###### used on cellphones or ######. They also have become ###### for people with speech ###### who use technology to ######.

Now some scientists are ###### voices to sound more ###### the people who use ######. To do it, they ###### with a group of ###### who are sharing their ###### with those who cannot ######.

Md. Teen Is One Of 17,000 Voice Donors

The effort to ###### a worldwide "Human Voicebank" ###### attracted more than 17,000 ###### from 110 countries.]]>
"To be ###### to give somebody the ###### of voice, I think ###### really, really powerful," she ######. She is a junior ###### Glenelg Country School.

Her ###### could be used to ###### one of more than ###### million Americans who have ###### problems and need help ###### talk. It's a problem ###### in the television series "######." The main character is ###### teenager with cerebral palsy, ###### affects muscle use. He ###### on technology and a ###### to act as his "######" at school.

"Everyone has ###### voice," said Rupal Patel.]]>
VocaliD Combines Volunteer And User Voices

Her company ###### custom voices by recording ###### sounds of the user. ###### those sounds are blended ###### six to 10 hours ###### recordings from a voice ######, matched to the user.

###### company is making voices ###### for its first 100 ######, but scientists have been ###### the technology for years.

###### Bunnell is head of ###### Speech Research Laboratory at ###### Alfred I. DuPont Hospital ###### Children in Wilmington, Delaware. ###### has created voices for ###### than 1,000 people with ######. Some were able to ###### their own voices before ###### lost the ability to ######.

The scientists in Bunnell's ###### study the user's sounds ###### qualities such as pitch.]]>
Patel is also a ###### professor on leave from ###### University. She worked with ###### as a scientist. She ###### her own way of ###### voices and turned to ###### online world for help. ###### goal was to have ###### voices to reflect the ###### of customers, which could ###### a man from Alabama ###### a little girl from ######.

Voicebank Was Launched Two Years Ago

Since she announced the ###### two years ago, she ######, many have helped. Volunteers ###### 6 to 91 logged ###### all over the world. ###### help for many reasons. ###### are practicing English or ###### community service.]]>
Pandya began recording her ###### last summer using headphones ###### speaking into her computer. ###### she asked friends to ###### the same.

Patel said ###### is working to make ###### simpler to build voices. ###### $1,249 cost is too ###### for many people. For ######, it can take six ###### 10 hours to record ###### needed speech. Only about ###### out of 10 makes ###### all the way through.

"Like Getting Something Back That Was Stolen"

###### of the first customers ###### they are happy with ###### results.

John Gregoire, of ######, Maine, was one of ###### first to receive a ###### voice last December from ######. It was eight years ###### he learned he had ###### illness.]]>
His ######, Linda, said she got ###### to hearing him speak ###### "Ryan," the voice in ###### computer. When they heard ###### new voice, they reacted ###### instantly. Linda said, "It ###### him."

"Having a distinctive ###### is like getting something ###### that was stolen," John ######.]]>