Voice Technology Research & Development

A voice carries
more than language.

RealComm Global develops novel voice technologies, collaborating with architects, engineers and researchers to evaluate, validate, and extend them through scientific investigation.

Human communication carries information beyond words.
Our research is dedicated to understanding, preserving, and advancing the technologies that allow that information to endure.

The company

Engineering led us here.

We started by building. It led us to deeper research.

Founded in 2016, RealComm Global has evolved from a patented communications platform into a research company. It develops novel voice technologies in collaboration with architects, engineers and researchers, and holds the intellectual property that results.

How we got here

We stopped shipping a product
in order to keep doing the work.

Mary Lee Weir · Founder
Intellectual property

Granted, dated, and held by the inventor.

U.S. 11,587,561 B2

Communication system and method of extracting emotion data during translations.

Inventor
Mary Lee Weir
Granted
21 February 2023
License
Exclusive to RealComm Global for research & development

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Research areas

Five questions the work is organized around.

Speech in any language
What does a voice carry that its words do not?

The layer of a message that people act on and machines have largely ignored.

Identity
How do we know what, or who, is speaking?

Captured, synthesized, transformed, or machine-generated, voices require provenance, consent, and authenticity by design.

Presence
What does it take to operate a hologram with a voice?

The longest-range inquiry.

Representation
Can affect be represented without being flattened into a label?

Treating it as continuous and situated rather than sorted into a short list of names.

Evidence
What evidence must exist before a claim can be believed?

Establishing how a capability would be measured, before claiming one.

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