Dr Chen Mo publishes a journal article in the Augmentative and Alternative Communication journal

Dr Chen Mo, Education Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Child Development, has published a journal article titled “Voice banking to support individuals who use speech-generating devices: development and evaluation of Singaporean-accented English synthetic voices and a Singapore Colloquial English recording inventory” in the journal of Augmentative and Alternative Communication. This article highlights a minimally researched, clinically relevant issue surrounding the development and evaluation of Singaporean-accented English synthetic voices that were created using readily available voice banking software and hardware.

The results showed that 100 listeners who participated in the study tended to prefer the voice created with the Singaporean Colloquial English (SCE) inventory when the stimulus was an SCE passage. The procedures used in this project may be helpful for interventionists who wish to create synthetic voices with accents that are not commercially available.