diff --git a/app/foundations/page.tsx b/app/foundations/page.tsx
index 7920392..d5c1fde 100644
--- a/app/foundations/page.tsx
+++ b/app/foundations/page.tsx
@@ -6,14 +6,14 @@ export default function InspirationPage() {
const researchFindings = [
{
icon: ,
- title: "MFA Achieves Human-Level Reliability",
+ title: "MFA Approaches Human-Level Reliability",
source: "Mahr et al., 2021",
finding:
"MFA-SAT reached 86% accuracy on child speech (ages 3-6), the only system approaching human interrater agreement.",
implementation:
"VoxKit defaults to MFA while supporting alternative engines for comparative research.",
limitation:
- "MFA-SAT was trained on adult speech; researchers should validate performance on their specific datasets.",
+ "MFA-SAT was trained on adult speech; researchers should validate performance for their own use case.",
},
{
icon: ,
@@ -33,20 +33,19 @@ export default function InspirationPage() {
finding:
"Most clinical speech datasets contain only minutes to hours of audio with uncertain labels, leading to poor generalization.",
implementation:
- "VoxKit enables comprehensive metadata tracking and versioned provenance for transparent reporting.",
+ "VoxKit tracks metadata and versioned provenance for transparency.",
limitation:
- "VoxKit facilitates rigorous documentation but cannot solve fundamental overfitting—researchers must apply appropriate validation.",
+ "VoxKit attempts rigorous documentation but cannot solve fundamental overfitting, only ensuring accidents happen less.",
},
{
icon: ,
title: "Interpretable Measures Outperform Black Boxes",
source: "Berisha & Liss, 2024",
- finding:
- "Low-dimensional, clinically grounded measures (e.g., hypernasality, articulatory precision) outperform opaque embeddings.",
+ finding: "Clinically grounded measures outperform opaque embeddings.",
implementation:
- "VoxKit's analyzer architecture supports custom, interpretable feature extraction from alignment outputs.",
+ "VoxKit allows you to test and review this, as AI becomes more advanced, methodologies may advance as well.",
limitation:
- "Alignment errors can propagate to downstream measures. Researchers must validate that phonetic boundaries are reliable for their specific analyses.",
+ "Alignment errors can propagate downstream. Researchers must validate that phonetic boundaries are reliable.",
},
];
@@ -116,43 +115,45 @@ export default function InspirationPage() {
{/* Summary Box */}
Guided workflows:
{" "}
- Guidance and layout can be customized to fit the direction and use
- case for specific studies/research
+ Guidance and layout can be customized to fit the direction for
+ specific studies/research
Flexible architecture:
{" "}
- Base classes and modular components allow developers to extend and
- adapt VoxKit
+ Explorative tools and pipeline steps can be reused and adapted
+ with minimal wiring, this also contributes to a more collaborative
+ mindset around research
Metadata-rich outputs:
{" "}
- Metadata tracking enables reportable results and and reduces
- overhead
+ Automated metadata tracking enables reportable results and and
+ reduces uncertainty around what was done
- Honest positioning:
+ The WE mindset:
{" "}
- VoxKit is research infrastructure, not a clinical decision-support
- system, it reduces technical barriers while maintaining scientific
- rigor
+ We hope researchers find leverage in this tool, and moreover,
+ contribute to this ecosystem so that research can become more
+ collaborative, rather than everyone reinventing the wheel and
+ working in silos
VoxKit prioritizes usability, flexibility, and transparency to
- empower researchers to utilize the cutting edge.
+ empower researchers to push the cutting edge.
diff --git a/app/page.tsx b/app/page.tsx
index 4518cf7..3cdf486 100644
--- a/app/page.tsx
+++ b/app/page.tsx
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ export default function VoxKitLanding() {
icon: ,
title: "Save Time & Money",
description:
- "Face it, you didn't get into speech pathology to sit hunched over in a computer terminal all day. What once took days of scripting and debugging now takes minutes. Spend your time on research, not wrestling with command-line tools.",
+ "Face it, you didn't get into speech pathology to sit hunched over in a computer terminal all day. Spend your time on research, not wrestling with command-line tools.",
},
{
icon: ,
title: "Publish-Ready Outputs",
description:
- "TextGrids, alignments, analysis reports—all formatted and ready to go. Your reviewers will never know how easy it was.",
+ "TextGrids, datasets, analysis reports; all pre-implemented. Exercise concrete workflows, not vague suggestions.",
},
{
icon: ,
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ export default function VoxKitLanding() {
icon: ,
title: "Built by Researchers",
description:
- "We've been in your shoes—late nights, broken scripts, looming deadlines. VoxKit exists because we needed it too.",
+ "We've been in your shoes; broken scripts, looming deadlines. VoxKit exists to make our lives easier.",
},
];
@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ export default function VoxKitLanding() {
We built VoxKit so you can focus on the science, not the software.
- Powerful alignment and analysis tools, zero command-line headaches.
+ Compose powerful speech-processing and analysis tools into guided
+ workflows with zero command-line headaches.
{/* CTA Buttons */}
@@ -118,8 +119,8 @@ export default function VoxKitLanding() {
Why You'll Love It
- Seriously, here's what we've been hearing from labs like
- yours.
+ Here's our pitch in a nutshell: VoxKit is like the Swiss Army
+ knife of speech pathology research.
@@ -188,8 +189,7 @@ export default function VoxKitLanding() {
Ready to Try It?
- Grab VoxKit and see for yourself. We think you'll wonder how
- you ever managed without it.
+ It's smooth sailing from here on out.