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<p class="MsoNormal">How accessible are the Circumreality</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And the tts Creation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For a blind person</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Skickades från <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">
E-post</a> för Windows 10</p>
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<b>Skickat: </b>den 8 september 2017 00:36<br>
<b>Till: </b><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br>
<b>Ämne: </b>Re: [DECtalk] voice creation</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Josh, Your experience with Jake's Circum Reality Keynote voice explains why it made my screen reader crash a few minutes after I started using it months
ago. Ulysses, The Keynote voice referred to is Jake's Circum Reality version of the Keynote Gold synthesizer. I believe Jake used his Braille Note notetaker which contains the Keynote voice and recorded thousands of words with it via Circum Reality software.
I think the Keynote voice used in the recording is a card or chip within the Braille Note.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Luis, I know that Cereproc offers a voice creation service for a fee. I contacted Cereproc a year or two ago asking about accessibility of the process.
Specifically I wanted to know if creation of a Cereproc voice requires Flash. The answer was yes for setup of the headset which they ship after voice creator purchases the service. The rest of the process is apparently in HTML5. That's what I was told then.
I chose not to purchase CereVoice service at that time because Flash requirement would prevent me from independently completing the process. I don't know if Flash is still utilized in Cereproc's voice creation service (CereVoice). I have no idea about the
voice creation process for making an Acapela or Cepstral voice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Blake</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> Josh Kennedy [mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 07, 2017 5:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DECtalk; Luis Carlos González Moráles; Blake Roberts<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DECtalk] voice creation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US">last time i tried it the keynote sapi5 voice that he made is very very slow and unresponsive. that is just how the circumReality voices are. With NVDA its almost unuseable.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">On 9/7/2017 5:22 PM, Luis Carlos González Moráles wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Circum Reality. and If you didn't know, CereProc, Acapela Group, Cepstral, ETC. Have the capability to build your oune
voice, but I don't know where we, I say I, can start.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Ulysses Harmony Garcia via Dectalk escribió:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Hi Blake,<br>
I didn't know there was a KeyNote voice for SAPI 5. How was this converted? What does CR stand for?<br>
-Ulysses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">On 9/7/2017 12:53 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Yes, some of the Circum Reality voices sound good. It's also wonderful that Jake Gross
made a SAPI keynote. I did not know that I could record myself saying a word for correct intonation. Is version of Circum Reality on Jake's site the most recent version? My only issue with CR on Jake's site is lack of uninstaller. Removing a installed CircumReality
voice requires editing the registry. I had to do that when I had CR voice(s) on my computer some time ago. Editing the registry scares me because of the damage incorrectly editing registry entries can do to a computer. Is there a newer version of CR available
which uninstalls a voice/ removes voice/CR registry keys?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Blake<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
Dectalk [<a href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Brandon Tyson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 07, 2017 12:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DECtalk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DECtalk] voice creation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">I wanted to touch on one point please:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Even if they can’t do SAPI, and even though this wouldn’t be the same, I’m still quite
happy with the now open-sourced CircumReality voice and think that they sound pretty good.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">What I particularly like about those is that even if they do have a mispronunciation,
it’s giving you the possibility to change the way a particular word, or even whole phrases, sound through manual hand made recordings, I think, which would theoretically be used in conjunction with the synthesizer itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Does this make sense?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">E.g. A user types in “Wow!” but they find the intonation is incorrect. It says “wow.”
Instead, making it sound boring. So the user can go in and manually correct this to have it say “Wow!” correctly by making an individual recording for that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Brandon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">From:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:r.d.t.prater@gmail.com">Devin Prater</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Thursday, September 7, 2017 8:56 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">DECtalk</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [DECtalk] voice creation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Yuly, GPU is the Graphics processing unit, and the CPU is the central processing unit. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">A neural net is is a way for computers to learn as a human does, through artificial intelligence. <br>
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Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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On Sep 7, 2017, at 7:39 AM, Ulysses Harmony Garcia via Dectalk <<a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">What is GPU, and how is that different from CPU? Also, how does neural networking work?
Does the computer map out a brain on a series of coordinates the way it does when mapping out an MRI or 3D printing the model of the brain? I'm interested in knowing what programming languages, interpreter scripts, etc they use so that people in college and
university labs who do neuroscientific work can build more neural networks to experiment on.<br>
I've read some sci-fi literature on how mind-uploading could work, but the problem is that it would be nearly impossible to calculate the exact number of neurones, neurotransmitters, synapses, and receptors, and which memories or part of identity they link
up to. It would require a huge load of processing and a really high knowledge of map coordination in three dimensions to put a series of binary code in each region of how the brain would look like.<br>
-Ulysses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">On 9/7/2017 5:22 AM, Piotr Machacz wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">I don’t think LyreBird will ever be able to make local voices, SAPI or otherwise. At
least not in the near future. The way I understand it, their system uses a massive GPU cluster to run a neural net that gets trained on people’s voices (this is why if you make enough recordings it learns to mimic you so well). It literally makes connections
and figures out patterns like a human brain. If you were to run something like this on a single home computer, even one with a beefy CPU or preferably a good high end GPU, I imagine it would take days to train, and then minutes if not a few hours to generate
1 clip of speech. That being said, neural nets are getting more and more common and are started to be used on a small scale on computers or phones, and some companies like Microsoft or Google are developing processor chips designed specifically for neural
nets. So maybe you’ll see this become an offline technology in a few years. For now, we know that lyrebird wants to make an API available for this technology, so you can expect apps and websites to make use of it (IE a chatting website might let you enter
your voice fingerprint and then you can talk to other people by typing text and getting your actual voice out, or perhaps getting news or weather spoken to you with your own voice)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">On 7 Sep 2017, at 11:13, Jayson Smith <<a href="mailto:jaybird@bluegrasspals.com">jaybird@bluegrasspals.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Hi,<br>
<br>
I don't know of any other voice creation program which can make a SAPI voice. If you still have the original recordings, and you still own the copyright in and to them I.E. you didn't sign some sort of agreement giving all your rights to Innoetics, you should
in theory be able to use such a service if one were to exist at some point in the future. You might try contacting Lyrebird and explaining your situation, see what they say.<br>
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Sorry I can't be of more help,<br>
<br>
Jayson<br>
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On 9/6/2017 3:03 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:<br>
> Lyrebird sounds interesting. I notice that in FAQ Lyrebird says they<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> can create a higher-quality voice if I have a lot of recordings but<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> this is not available in the current beta. On a related topic, let me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> put all my cards on the table. Before Innoetics was acquired by<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> Samsung, I was creating a SAPI of myself with help from a innoetics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> founder. In July 2017 around the time of Samsung's acquisition of the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> company, the Innoetics founder told me he would send me a SAPI of my<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> voice using the thousands of sentences I recorded. Due to no SAPI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> received after almost 2 months from that promise, I'm thinking the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> Innoetics founder whom I won't specify on-list might not be able to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> I'm just accepting the possibility that aforementioned promise might<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> not be fulfilled. Does anyone know of a voice creation program which<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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On Behalf Of Jayson Smith <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 12:20 PM To: DECtalk Discussions
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> Subject: [DECtalk] Lyrebird TTS, a demo is finally here!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> A few months ago, I heard about Lyrebird, a future project which<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> Last night I found out that it's finally here, in an early beta form.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://lyrebird.ai/">http://lyrebird.ai</a> and create an account, you can then<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> record a minimum of thirty sentences they specify, the more you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> quality isn't the best, it does pretty accurately capture my voice,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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