Sound QuestPrivate voice audition
Chatterbox experiment Β· private

Which method says the phoneme correctly?

Play the three versions, then mark what you hear. Start with p, short a, schwa and th. If those fail, we do not convert the full library.

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Every play button below uses newly generated audio. β€œYour pronunciation” means it guided the conversion locally; it is not the original clip. These are auditions, not privacy-approved release files.

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Control test

Chatterbox from text

Chatterbox sees ordinary text only. It does not know that we want an isolated phoneme.

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Private comparison

Your pronunciation β†’ new voice

Your saved articulation guides an unrelated built-in Chatterbox voice. No source recording is played here.

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Privacy candidate

Exact phoneme β†’ new voice

A rule-based phoneme source guides the same unrelated voice, without using your voice as the source.

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New gorilla test

Australian synthetic reference

A free Australian system voice says the natural whole word. This shows the intended stress and vowels.

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New gorilla test

Australian guide β†’ Chatterbox

The natural Australian pronunciation guides the unrelated Chatterbox voice.

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New gorilla test

Slower guide β†’ Chatterbox

The Australian pronunciation is slightly slower before conversion for clearer classroom listening.

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p/p/
Sound

A short, clean stop β€” no β€˜puh’. This is the hardest privacy conversion test.

Control testChatterbox from text
Private comparisonYour pronunciation β†’ new voice
Privacy candidateExact phoneme β†’ new voice
02
a/Γ¦/
Sound

The short a in cat, in an Australian accent.

Control testChatterbox from text
Private comparisonYour pronunciation β†’ new voice
Privacy candidateExact phoneme β†’ new voice
03
schwa/Ι™/
Sound

The weak unstressed vowel heard at the end of teacher.

Control testChatterbox from text
Private comparisonYour pronunciation β†’ new voice
Privacy candidateExact phoneme β†’ new voice
04
th/ΞΈ/
Sound

The quiet th in thin β€” no voice in the throat.

Control testChatterbox from text
Private comparisonYour pronunciation β†’ new voice
Privacy candidateExact phoneme β†’ new voice
05
m/m/
Sound

A continuous sound that should stay smooth and clean.

Control testChatterbox from text
Private comparisonYour pronunciation β†’ new voice
Privacy candidateExact phoneme β†’ new voice
06
s/s/
Sound

A continuous hiss β€” not the letter name β€˜ess’.

Control testChatterbox from text
Private comparisonYour pronunciation β†’ new voice
Privacy candidateExact phoneme β†’ new voice
07
sh/Κƒ/
Sound

The consonant digraph in ship.

Control testChatterbox from text
Private comparisonYour pronunciation β†’ new voice
Privacy candidateExact phoneme β†’ new voice
08
o/Ι™Κ‰/
Sound

Australian long o, as in go and dough.

Control testChatterbox from text
Private comparisonYour pronunciation β†’ new voice
Privacy candidateExact phoneme β†’ new voice
09
dough/dΙ™Κ‰/
Word

Tests the ough spelling pattern as one long-o sound.

Control testChatterbox from text
Private comparisonYour pronunciation β†’ new voice
Privacy candidateExact phoneme β†’ new voice
10
grab/Ι‘ΙΉΓ¦b/
Word

Tests whether a precise synthetic guide can become a natural whole word.

Control testChatterbox from text
Privacy candidateExact phoneme β†’ new voice
11
gorilla/Ι‘Ι™ΛˆΙΉΙͺlΙ™/
Word

Revised Australian test: guh-RIL-uh, with stress on RIL and reduced first and final vowels.

New gorilla testAustralian synthetic reference
New gorilla testAustralian guide β†’ Chatterbox
New gorilla testSlower guide β†’ Chatterbox

What result lets us continue?

The exact-phoneme version must be accurate for the stop, vowel, schwa and digraph tests. The recording-guided version must be accurate and not recognisably you. A pitch change alone is not enough.