Refueling the Rocket: UltraVoice and the Future of Personalized Speech Restoration
For more than 35 years, UltraVoice has helped people generate real-time speech after losing their natural voice box, the larynx. Built on the brilliance, creativity, and problem-solving ability of founder David Baraff, PhD, UltraVoice has delivered a unique and innovative speech restoration technology to thousands of individuals who needed a new way to communicate.
The UltraVoice Plus II Speech Restoration System is unlike traditional external speaking devices. Instead of simply producing sound outside the body, UltraVoice uses an intra-oral technology that allows users to shape sound into speech using their own mouth, tongue, lips, and oral anatomy. For many customers, this provides a more natural communication experience and a renewed sense of independence.
But we believe the future can go even further.
In 2026, UltraVoice is refueling the rocket and preparing for a moonshot: helping solve one of the most difficult communication challenges faced by hundreds of thousands of individuals worldwide.
Real-time artificial larynx speech that is clearer, more intelligible, and more personalized.
A Voice, With More Choice
UltraVoice has always been about more than simply producing sound. It is about helping people communicate in a way that feels personal, functional, and empowering.
With the UltraVoice Plus II Speech Restoration System, customers are not limited to a single generic tone. We are able to offer different Voice Tone options, giving users the opportunity to choose a sound that feels more natural and more like them.
This commitment to personalization is central to our vision for the future.
Every person’s oral tract is unique. Every customer speaks differently. Speech patterns vary based on anatomy, dexterity, pace, vocabulary, and personal preference. That means the future of speech restoration cannot be one-size-fits-all. It must be personalized.
Building the Next Generation of Speech Restoration
UltraVoice is actively developing new hardware and software designed to meet the needs of more patients across the country. Our goal is to make the system smaller, smarter, easier to use, and more adaptable to each individual customer.
One of the most exciting areas of development is the use of speech recordings and paired text data to train personalized speech enhancement models. With customer consent, we are working to collect voice and text pairings that can help train neural networks to better understand UltraVoice speech patterns.
The goal is not to replace the person’s speech. The goal is to enhance it.
By augmenting speech with targeted acoustic cues, strengthening important speech signals, and reducing unwanted noise, we believe software can help produce speech that is clearer, more intelligible, and more natural sounding in real time.
The Vision: Personalized Artificial Larynx Speech
The future we are working toward is a personalized artificial larynx speech system that combines:
- Proven UltraVoice intra-oral speech technology
- Smaller and more modern hardware
- Personalized Voice Tone options
- Customer-guided training and testing
- Real-time speech enhancement software
- Neural network models designed to improve intelligibility
This is a challenging problem. It requires engineering, clinical insight, patient feedback, speech science, and persistence. But UltraVoice has always been built on problem solving. For 35 years, the company has continued to support customers with a technology that is truly unique in the world of speech restoration.
Now, we are taking the next step.
Partnering With Customers to Build the Future
The people who use UltraVoice are not just customers. They are partners in the future of communication.
Their feedback helps us improve. Their experiences guide our priorities. Their speech patterns help us understand what real-world intelligibility means outside of a laboratory or engineering bench.
As we develop the next generation of UltraVoice technology, we are committed to doing it responsibly, thoughtfully, and in partnership with the people we serve.
Our mission is simple: to help more people be heard.
UltraVoice has already helped thousands of people regain the ability to speak in real time after laryngectomy. In 2026 and beyond, we are preparing for something even bigger.
A future where artificial larynx speech is not only possible, but personalized.
A future where speech is clearer, more intelligible, and more natural.
A future where every customer has more than a voice.
They have a voice that feels like their own.