Donate, back, or sponsor DysVoxa
DysVoxa is an experimental Windows speech-recognition beta for people with dysarthria and other speech that conventional systems often miss. Your gift funds safety work, packaging, and independent testing. It does not buy a paid product tier, and it may not be tax-deductible.
Three ways to support DysVoxa
Choose a one-time donation, the public campaign, or a conversation about sponsorship and grants.
Donate with PayPal
Any amount helps the next round of safety work, hardware, and evaluation. A donation is a gift, not a purchase.
Back on Indiegogo
The campaign is the public funding drive for the core build, a year of operating costs, platform fees, and a contingency buffer.
Sponsor or award a grant
Foundations, clinics, schools, AAC teams, and companies can fund a named gift or a cautious, consent-based pilot.
Why funding is needed now
DysVoxa is a small project led by a founder living with spinocerebellar ataxia and ataxic dysarthria. A functioning beta exists. That is not the same as validated, dependable software.
Funding supports independent testing, candidate and confirmation safety, CPU timing, Windows packaging, documentation, support, and evaluation across more speakers. The maintainers intend the project release to remain free, and no paid product tier is currently planned. Without outside support, that testing stays limited to what one founder can carry.
What already exists
Functioning project workflow
Manual recording, local Parakeet and Whisper recognition, a text chooser, editing, quick phrases, and Piper output are present.
Founder experience
DysVoxa is built by a founder living with ataxic dysarthria, for a problem he faces directly.
Local by default
Microphone audio stays on the Windows PC for recognition. Optional cloud mode sends text and context only when the user enables it.
Where support goes
Campaign support is allocated across the core build, a year of operating costs, platform fees, and a reserve for hardware, testing, and unforeseen costs.
Core build — 38%
Development compute and audio testing for candidate handling, confirmation, and speech output.
A year of operating costs — 32%
Hosting, tooling, and ongoing iteration so the project can keep running.
Platform and payment fees — 12%
Campaign and payment processing fees on the funding platform.
Contingency buffer — 18%
A reserve for hardware, testing, and unforeseen costs.
Further testing and packaging
Support beyond the main goal funds additional testing, packaging work, and evaluation.
What donations and sponsorships strengthen
Broader independent evaluation
Testing across dysarthric speakers, with word error rate, chooser usefulness, harmful changes, user effort, and timing reported honestly.
Safety architecture
Late-result handling, confirmations, stale-result protection, accurate source labels, and saved-correction provenance.
Specialist feedback
Time with specialists who can review the beta and how it behaves.
Pilot participation
Compensated participation so more speakers can be included in testing.
Windows release preparation
Packaging consistency, offline verification, documentation, accessibility work, and remote-listener Zoom and Teams testing.
Privacy and legal work
A phase of GDPR and privacy review for the experimental beta.
Sponsor and grant collaboration
For clinics, schools, AAC teams, grant bodies, and disability foundations. Email info@dysvoxa.com with:
- Organization name and contact person
- Type of users you want to support (individual, clinic cohort, education)
- Expected pilot size and timeline
- Funding path (donation, grant, sponsorship, procurement, blended)
- Whether you want a public listing, a private gift, or a named sponsorship
- Any required legal, procurement, or reporting constraints
We can then discuss a cautious test plan, consent, privacy, fallback communication, recognition on the backers page, and how limitations will be reported. A sponsorship does not include a claim that DysVoxa already works for every speaker.
Recognition for donors and sponsors
Public credit is optional. We list only the name and note you approve.
Backers page
Individuals and organizations can appear at /support/backers/ after they opt in.
Progress notes
Sponsors can ask for updates on testing, packaging, and budget use as those notes are ready.
No paid unlock
Recognition does not create a private product tier. The intended release stays free for users.
Other ways to help
- Share the Indiegogo campaign with disability organizations, accessibility advocates, AAC teams, and families affected by dysarthria — and introduce us if you know a possible sponsor.
- If you or someone you know lives with dysarthria or another speech impairment and would test the beta, write to support@dysvoxa.com.
What responsible progress looks like
- Structured, consent-based testing across more dysarthric speakers
- Transparent word error rate, candidate usefulness, harmful-change, effort, and timing results
- Stronger confirmation, provenance, stale-result, and installed-app recovery safeguards
- Consistent Windows packaging and verified offline Local installation
- Remote-listener Zoom and Microsoft Teams tests before compatibility claims
- Clear evidence about where DysVoxa helps, harms, or provides no useful alternative
Transparency
Progress updates, anonymized pilot summaries (with consent), and budget reporting are shared on this website as they become available. DysVoxa is built and operated by a registered company in Latvia. It is not a charity. The legal name and registration number are in the site footer. Ask your own adviser before treating a gift as tax-deductible.