Phonate

=Phonate Beta=

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 * Phonate** is an app for helping you communicate when your larynx isn't working. Like an artificial larynx, it generates a sound that approximates the sound that your larynx makes: the "glottal waveform". When you hold the iPhone speaker near the corner of your mouth, touch the screen and talk, that sound is modified by the shape of your vocal tract as you make different vowel sounds.

Tab 1, "Speak", is the pitch and amplitude control for the selected synthesized glottal waveform.

Tab 2, "Settings", lets you change the base waveform for the synthesizer, and change the center pitch.

Tab 3, "SpeakNotes" is used to text quick notes, when a listener can't understand your speech. The notes can be saved for later use, and are spoken out loud using the iPhone's synthetic voice.

Learning to talk with a synthetic glottal waveform takes a lot of instruction and practice. For example, Peter Frampton spent weeks experimenting and practicing with his "Talk Box" device, a speaker with a mouth tube that he used to modify his guitar sounds using his vocal tract.