Boost Her Voice, meet the voice boosters.

12 women who design how the world speaks again.

Halfway in, and the volume’s rising. Edition 26: the voice boosters powering real speech.

They don’t just raise their voices. They build the tools that return yours.

A celebration of STEM brilliance, and the women who gave sound a future.

📌 Dr. Cynthia Fox: Globalized voice therapy for Parkinson’s and beyond. Her method, LSVT LOUD, is used in 60+ countries. Turns speech rehab into real-world transformation. Gives millions their voice, loud and lasting.

📌 Dr. Ayanna Howard: Builds robots that teach kids how to speak. Blends AI with empathy for disabled learners. Created speech-enabled tech for inclusive classrooms. Codes confidence where words once faltered.

📌 Dr. Yun Bing: Built Beautiful Voice, AI therapy after stroke. Brings digital speech rehab to low-resource clinics. Winner of Innovate UK’s Women in Innovation. Turns recovery into something people can reach.

📌 Dr. Rupal Patel: Your voice, not just a voice. Her startup, VocaliD, ends robotic sameness. Uses AI to craft unique digital voices. Restores identity, one syllable at a time.

📌 Dr. Pilar Montesinos: Designed AAC tools for Latin American kids. Brings speech tech to low-income families. Expands access for non-verbal, Spanish-speaking children. Equity sounds like this.

📌 Prof. Anne-Marie Kermarrec: Builds privacy-first, multilingual voice assistants. Runs open-source projects across Europe. Challenges tech giants on speech inclusion. Designs tools that serve every accent.

📌 Dr. Keisha E. John: Fights the early literacy gap with tech. Brings voice, SMS, and apps to classrooms. Helps kids in underserved communities speak up. Equity starts with a first word.

📌 Dr. Maria Guasch: Codes voices for endangered languages. Builds multilingual speech tools for cultural survival. Her linguistics lab preserves how people sound. Tech that speaks for the forgotten.

📌 Dr. Sherry Chou: Bridges stroke recovery and brain-computer tech. Her clinical trials restore speech via BCI. Partners with rehab centers worldwide. Gives voice back through brain pathways.

📌 Dr. Camille Nakhid: Centers Pacific and Caribbean voices in data. Builds digital tools with real communities. Her research drives policy, not just papers. Listens where systems never did.

📌 Dr. Yanan Luo: Develops AI speech tools in Mandarin and more. Designs therapeutic bots for healthcare dialogue. Her work closes gaps in multilingual care. Builds fairness into every interaction.

📌 Dr. Sahar Yousef: Builds cognitive tools for trauma and expression. Helps people speak again after injury. Blends neuroscience, learning, and access. Restores more than language, restores agency.

They gave speech its second chance.

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