Rupal Patel : Synthetic voices, as unique as fingerprints

Rupal Patel at TEDWomen 2013
Synthetic voices, as unique as fingerprints  (transcript)
Summary
I was sorry that this was no time to choose a voice of Siri in the iPhone.
In our world, there are many people who are unable to speak.

Currently, by helping some technologies, some of them are able to have the voice like Professor Stephen Hawking who uses an American accented voice.

However, girls, kids, and women who lost their voice use this voice that he uses.

According to the speaker’s research, saying is the vibrations generated by your voice box that is pushed through the rest of vocal tract that all people have.
It means the people not only who lost their voice later in life but also who can't speak when they were born.

By combining a voice that is created by the vibrations and a similar vibrations’ voice that is collected by voice donates, a unique voice having identities is created.

Our voice has a unique voiceprint like fingerprints that reflects our age, size, lifestyle, and personality.

It's needed for people who use synthetic voices.

Words in this story
synthetic /adj/ man-made
prosthetic /adj/ artificial
generate /verb/  cause, give rise to, lead to, result in, bring about, create, make, produce, engender
fingerprint
surrogate /noun/ sacrifice, replacement