Voice Technology Research & Development

A voice carries
more than language.

RealComm Global is a privately held research company focused on advancing voice technologies through applied research, proprietary innovation, and intellectual property.

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

Ten years in, and narrower than ever.

Founded in 2016, RealComm Global has evolved from a patented communications platform into an independent research organization. Today the company conducts research, develops proprietary technologies, and builds intellectual property supporting future voice technologies.

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

The full record

Research areas

Four questions the work is organized around.

Transmission
What survives when the words are replaced?

Understanding what communication loses, and what should remain, across language boundaries.

Representation
Can emotion be represented without being reduced?

Research into preserving emotional context as communication changes form.

Identity
Where does a voice become a person?

Exploring authenticity, consent, provenance, and identity in voice technologies.

Presence
Can presence emerge from voice alone?

Investigating new methods of representing human presence through speech.

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Inquiries

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