Making it easier for non-verbal people to communicate naturally without losing their personal vocal identity, thru utilising their own voice.

  • Respeak is a not-for-profit initiative that restores and re-delivers a person’s own voice when they lose the ability to speak due to Motor Neurone Disease (MND), stroke, cancer, neurological conditions, or physical injury.

  • Respeak treats voice as dialogue, not data. It applies professional dialogue restoration and mixing practices developed across thousands of broadcast programs, commercials, and feature films to preserve natural cadence, emotional delivery, and identity.

    The result is communication that carries not only information, but emotional meaning — which is often as important, or more important, than the words themselves.

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  • Unlike traditional voice banking, Respeak does not require scripted recording sessions or a functioning speaking voice. It works entirely from existing, natural recordings of a person speaking as themselves — phone videos, home footage, interviews, presentations, voicemail, or archival media captured during everyday life.

  • Respeak is language-independent, works alongside existing AAC systems, and is built around data sovereignty, consent, and ethical use. Voices are owned by the individual, never reused, and never monetised.

    Success for Respeak means making this capability available, free of cost, to the people whose lives it will most positively affect — while preserving the human details that matter most: a familiar cadence, a pause that sounds right, and a voice that still feels like them.

  • Kearon de Clouet, created Respeak to fill a gap he saw in the ability to help non-verbal people using AAC systems to communicate with much more effectively (and emotionally).

    The founder has over 30 years’ experience in voice synthesis, audio engineering, and filmmaking. He has directed and engineered voices across thousands of professional productions and has been involved in voice synthesis since the 1980s.

    In the past year, he wrote, directed, and produced a large-scale public series on the ethical use of AI. The series reached more than 4 million viewers globally.

Our Team

Kearon de Clouet

Founder / CTO

Kearon de Clouet is the founder of Respeak and a voice and sound specialist with over 30 years’ experience in directing and recording voices, voice synthesis, and filmmaking. His work spans early voice synthesis systems through to modern AI voice technologies, including large-scale voice deployment and dialogue restoration. With a background rooted in film and sound, Kearon brings a practical understanding of how voice carries identity, emotion, and intent—shaping Respeak’s focus on voices that remain recognisably human.

Business Manager

Alicia Dudek

Alicia brings a deep understanding of human systems, care, and meaningful change to Respeak. With more than 15 years’ experience working across complex industries, she is known for listening closely, recognising patterns, and helping people navigate change with clarity and purpose. At Respeak, Alicia helps ensure the technology is shaped by real lived experience—so giving someone their voice back is not only technically sound, but ethical, humane, and grounded in care.