Voice Banking – ElevenLabs

We are delighted to announce we have partnered with ElevenLabs, a pioneer in AI audio and voice technology, to provide a free voice banking service for people diagnosed with MSA.

This is a big step forward in improving the quality of life for people living with MSA. We encourage all people diagnosed with MSA, who are fully registered with the Trust, to complete voice banking as soon as possible. Many people living with MSA will find that their speech gradually becomes softer or slurred and changes over time. The MSA Trust funds a “voice banking” service to enable people to continue communicating effectively. This will ensure the best version of your voice can be used if or when needed.

We will be providing free access to ElevenLabs’s voice cloning and text-to-speech App for our MSA Trust members. Voice Cloning is the same as Voice Banking.

ElevenLabs allows for the creation of highly accurate Professional Voice Clones (PVC), often indistinguishable from a person’s natural voice.

By preserving your unique voice, the initiative aims to maintain a crucial aspect of your identity and facilitate more natural communication with loved ones and carers. Your voice can be used on your smart phone, tablet or laptop.

You can create an instant voice from an existing short voice note, a video or voice recording. An Instant voice can be generated with only 30 seconds of speech and/or recordings. If you have 10 minutes of recordings from anywhere, in any number of files, it is much better to create a Pro Voice. A Pro Voice will give a better-quality voice.

What do I do next?

We would ask that you discuss voice banking with your Speech and Language Therapist. They will discuss the best voice banking options for you and need to assist you with the ElevenLabs voice cloning and uploading. The MSA Trust is unable to provide any technical assistance.

You must be a fully registered member of the MSA Trust, have received a diagnosis of MSA and live in the UK or Ireland, to access this free ElevenLabs service.

Please contact the Trust at support@msatrust.org.uk to request details of how to proceed and provide us with the e-mail contact of your Speech and Language Therapist. We will contact your Speech and Language Therapist with information about the process. You will be provided with a code to use when registering on the ElevenLabs website for free voice banking. Find out more about ElevenLabs here – https://elevenlabs.io/.

When you register with ElevenLabs you will be asked to add your credit or debit card details to the subscription section. You will not be charged for your Pro Voice Clone. It is just a part of the ElevenLabs sign up flow at the current time. Your code is a lifetime code and not just for 12 months.

Once you create your Voice Clone you can use it immediately through ElevenLabs’ website, on your phone or tablet via the ElevenLabs app. You can also use your banked voice on the Predictable App (both Apple and Android), Grid 3 (not Grid for ipad), Communicator 5 and Mind Express.

Please make sure that you are happy with ElevenLabs Terms of Service before accessing this service. Currently this states that ElevenLabs does not have access to your voice and won’t use it for commercial use. You can also opt-out if you do not want your voice used to train and improve the ElevenLabs model. Please note that this is not a service delivered by the MSA Trust.