Your Adaptive AI Communication Companion
SAMSpeak™ (Speech Adaptive Model), is adaptive AI technology designed for people whose speech is unclear, changing, or atypical. It learns each person's unique voice and helps others understand them more clearly.
Communication that adapts to you, not the other way around.
Every Voice Deserves to be Understood
The Spark: A Father's Search for Clarity
SAMSpeak™ began with one father's struggle to understand his son. Long pauses, repeated guesses, and moments of missed connection revealed a deeper truth: even with love, patience, and experience, understanding someone with unclear or shifting speech can be incredibly hard.
There was no technology that could truly learn the way his son spoke. No device that could adapt to the unique rhythm, patterns, and beautiful complexity of an individual voice. Every solution expected his son to conform to the technology, instead of the technology adapting to him.
Restoring Voice, Connection, and Independence
For millions of people, every word requires effort and every conversation carries uncertainty. When speech is unclear or difficult to interpret, moments that should bring connection instead create distance. The inability to be understood, or to understand someone you love, can lead to frustration, dependence, and isolation.
The Challenge
For many, expressing needs, participating in daily activities, or simply sharing a thought becomes a constant struggle.
Who is affected
Speech challenges affect individuals across a wide range of developmental, neurological, and motor conditions, including autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, ALS, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, and traumatic brain injury. These challenges can make speech unclear, inconsistent, or subject to change over time.
The Breadth of the Challenge
40 million Americans, and hundreds of millions globally, live with communication disorders, yet current technology consistently fails them. SAMSpeak™ addresses speech challenges for those who can speak but struggle to be understood, across diverse conditions including (but not limited to):
5.4M Americans with Autism
- 25-35% are minimally verbal
400K-600K Americans with Down Syndrome
- Expressive language challenges are common
7M+ Stroke Survivors
- 64% have communication impairments
- 795,000 new strokes annually
~1M Americans with Parkinson's
- 89% experience speech and voice disorders
764K+ Americans with Cerebral Palsy
- Up to 90% have dysarthria affecting speech clarity
32K+ Americans with ALS
- 70%+ experience speech difficulties
These represent just some of the conditions where the SAMSpeak™ adaptive AI can help. Our technology learns and evolves with each individual, regardless of their condition or how their speech changes over time.
Why Current Solutions Fall Short
Current Limitations
Traditional communication tools were not designed for the realities of inconsistent or evolving speech. Many rely on preset phrases, fixed models, or rigid symbol systems that cannot interpret how a person truly speaks. They frequently fall short when confronted with nonstandard vocalizations, leading to misunderstanding, increased caregiver burden, and reduced independence.
The Impact
When communication tools cannot understand how a person truly speaks, the burden shifts unfairly to the individual and those around them. Instead of technology adapting to the person, families are left to navigate uncertainty through repetition, guessing, and constant interpretation. This creates frustration, increases dependence, and builds emotional distance at moments when clarity and connection matter most.
Understanding SAMSpeak™
From unclear speech to clear communication, SAMSpeak™ learns as you speak.
How SAMSpeak™ Works
Your voice model that learns and improves with every conversation
1. On-Device Audio Capture
Audio captured on your device with full user control
- Device microphone input
- Noise suppression
- Audio feature extraction
- User consent maintained locally
2. Secure Encrypted Transmission
Encrypted real-time connection
- Privacy-first architecture
- Ephemeral processing by default
- No raw audio retention
3. Cloud AI Processing
Powerful personalized intelligence
- Core speech recognition
- Efficient personalization
- Learns unique speech patterns
- Intent inference beyond words
- Stability controls prevent drift
4. Output Delivery
Clear communication returned instantly
- Text display & confirmation
- Personalized text-to-speech
- AAC/symbolic output support
5. Continuous Evolution
Your model improves with every interaction
- Passive learning during use
- Cross-device continuity
- Centralized model governance
- Clinical reliability maintained
How SAMSpeak™ is Different
ASR (for typical speech)
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is built for typical, fluent speech. It often struggles when speech is irregular, inconsistent, or influenced by developmental, neurological, or motor conditions.
AAC (replaces speech)
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) replaces or supplements speech with symbol grids, typed messages, or synthesized voices for individuals with little to no functional speech.
SAMSpeak™ (adapts to and strengthens natural speech)
SAMSpeak™ serves people who do speak but are not always understood. It adapts to the unique patterns of each person's voice and helps others understand them more clearly. It strengthens natural communication rather than replacing it, filling an important gap between recognition systems and speech replacement tools.
SAMSpeak™ Competitive Advantage
SAMSpeak™ delivers capabilities that competing ASR and AAC solutions cannot match, providing comprehensive support for adaptive communication.
A Leadership Team Dedicated to Amplifying Every Voice
With more than 50 years of combined experience across AI, data science, accessibility, enterprise technology, and human-centered product design, the SAMSpeak™ leadership team brings together the strategic capability, technical depth, and personal commitment required to transform how people with unclear or evolving speech communicate.
Scott Schlesinger
Scott Schlesinger, Founder and Inventor of SAMSpeak™, is a seasoned technology executive with over 25 years of leadership in data, analytics, and AI. SAMSpeak™ began as Scott's personal journey to better understand his son's speech, leading to the development of its patent-pending adaptive AI engine.
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His career at global consultancies included building high-performing AI organizations and leading major digital transformation programs. His vision and operational discipline are crucial for bringing SAMSpeak™ into clinical, educational, and consumer environments.
Scott Siegel
Scott Siegel, Co-Founder and Head of Product Experience, brings decades of expertise in inclusive design, accessibility, and communication-focused product development across healthcare and education.
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He has consistently delivered intuitive and practical technology, shaping products that support autonomy and reduce caregiver burden for individuals with communication challenges. His deep understanding of user behavior and clinical workflows is central to SAMSpeak™'s commitment to human-centered design, preserving the human voice through adaptive technology.
SAMSpeak™ is further supported by globally recognized innovators and subject matter experts in healthcare and insurance, along with engineering, data, and AI professionals whose collective experience strengthens the platform's foundation.
SAMSpeak™: Building a Defensible Moat in Adaptive Communication
SAMSpeak™ is engineered as a proprietary, adaptive communication system that aligns with an individual's natural vocal patterns. Instead of relying on fixed phrase sets or static recognition models, the platform uses a dynamic understanding layer that refines its interpretation based on ongoing real-world use. This unique and complex architecture allows SAMSpeak™ to remain effective even when speech is irregular, variable, or evolving over time, creating significant technical barriers to entry for competitors.
Proprietary Adaptive Learning Architecture
The system is designed to identify meaningful patterns in non-standard vocalizations. It continuously updates its internal representation of the user's speech profile in real time. This advanced, self-refining capability represents a significant technical barrier to entry.
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This advanced, self-refining capability is incredibly difficult to replicate, as it requires deep expertise in signal processing, machine learning for atypical data, and real-time inference, preventing easy imitation by competitors. This progressive refinement supports improved clarity, stability, and responsiveness without requiring extensive configuration. By focusing on pattern-level adaptation rather than preset vocabularies, SAMSpeak™ aims to support a broad range of communication needs and speech profiles, offering a level of personalized accuracy unmatched by traditional systems.
Patent-Pending IP Protection
The core of SAMSpeak™'s adaptive intelligence is protected by a pending patent filing. Specifically, its AI engine architecture and the continuous learning process it enables, is protected by a pending patent filing.
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This intellectual property safeguards our innovative approach to understanding and refining evolving speech patterns, establishing a strong legal moat against competitors seeking to develop similar adaptive communication technologies.
Privacy-First, Secure Data Handling
SAMSpeak™ follows a privacy-first design that treats speech as sensitive personal information. Its secure framework minimizes exposure while supporting advanced adaptive learning. This commitment to privacy, coupled with its advanced functionality, provides a critical differentiator and builds user trust.
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This builds user trust in sensitive applications - a challenge for less scrupulous approaches. The system captures a user's natural vocalizations on their device and processes them through a secure framework that prepares and delivers feedback, insights, and communication output. All interactions are handled using practices that minimize the exposure of sensitive information while supporting the advanced computation required for adaptive learning. Individuals maintain clear control over what information is stored or removed, ensuring the solution can be used confidently in environments where confidentiality and compliance matter.
Recognized by Experts in the Field
Global technologists and innovators, together with clinicians and communication specialists, recognize the potential of SAMSpeak™ to transform communication for individuals with atypical or changing speech. Their perspectives highlight the meaningful impact and future possibilities of adaptive, privacy-first technology.
"The opportunities in the future with SAMSpeak™ are endless! I'm very excited for what's to come! You have created something that will change the future forever."
Speech & Language Pathology Professional
We welcome speech-language pathologists, therapists, clinicians, and caregivers who wish to share their perspectives or collaborate with us.
Join Us in Restoring Voices
Every voice deserves to be heard. Every person deserves to be understood.
Together, we can ensure every connection is made.
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