The world is changing blindingly fast. An estimated 2.7 million years worth of speech is spoken over various communication devices each day. Never before has human speech been captured or encountered by the world in aggregate in such abundance. It is time explore it and understand it at deeper levels than ever before.
There is pressing need to do this, since speech now plays a major role in influencing and controlling the flow of our lives. We need to know how to harness it. Our voice analysis project has the broad scope of large-scale, machine-aided scientific enquiry into the fundamental nature of human speech. This is to be differentiated from our tremendous historical success in automated speech processing.