[Project/Research] Help us build "Voice Bridge" – An Open-Source AI tool for Speech Accessibility (Participants Needed - $20+ Gift Card)

[Project/Research] Help us build "Voice Bridge" – An Open-Source AI tool for Speech Accessibility (Participants Needed - $20+ Gift Card) Hi everyone! My name is Rawan and I’m part of a student engineering team at McMaster University, working on our Capstone project: Voice Bridge. What is Voice Bridge? We are developing a machine learning model specifically designed to better recognize and translate dysarthric speech. We’ve noticed that mainstream speech-to-text tools often fail people with speech disabilities, and we want to change that. Voice Bridge is an Open Source initiative. This means our findings and code will be available to the public to help push the entire field of speech accessibility research and design forward. Our goals with this project is to help the Speech Accessibility community build better tools for everyone. How you can help: To make this work, we need real-world audio samples to train our model. We are looking for volunteers with dysarthria (due to stutter/stammer, stroke, CP, ALS, or other conditions) to provide speech recordings. Your Privacy & Anonymity: Your participation will be fully anonymized. We do not need your personal background or identity, we only need the audio of your voice to train the model and demonstrate results. Any names or emails used for coordination are stored separately and deleted after the project ends. The Details: * Task: Recording short phrases and commands (provided by us). * Time Commitment: At most an hour. * Location: Remote/Online. * Compensation: A $20+ gift card as a thank you for your time. How to get started: If you’d like to help us push speech accessibility forward, please comment below, send me a Direct Message (DM), or email us at mahdir3@mcmaster.ca. I’ll forward you the consent form, answer any questions, and explain the next steps for recording. Thank you for helping us make technology more inclusive! The Voice Bridge Team