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Living Voice
Partnership Proposal

Put it in every nation's hands.

A voice-AI companion any tribe can talk to in its own language — built so every nation can have one, regardless of budget. Three are live today. I'm looking for the right partner to take it to all Indian Nations.

Three live agents — talk to them below

Talk to the live agents →
Who I am

45 years in the studio — now building living voices.

I'm Bobby Brooks — inventor of Sentient Synthesis™, and a 45-year recording engineer and producer in the Motown / Hitsville tradition. I've built something I believe belongs to all Indian Nations, and I'm looking for the right partner to put it in every tribe's hands.

Robert "Bobby" Brooks is a veteran educator, inventor, futurist, engineer, mixer, and producer with over 45 years of real-world experience in music and entertainment. As a longtime personal recording engineer for Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and many others, Bobby brings world-class technical expertise to this project.

Selected credits

Michael Jackson · Stevie Wonder · Prince · Whitney Houston · Quincy Jones · Bruce Swedien · Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis · Rick James · Teena Marie · Andre Cymone · Jody Watley · Ice-T & Body Count · Black Sabbath · P.O.D. · DeBarge · The Notorious B.I.G. · The Fugees · Layzie & Krayzie Bone · 2Pac · Maurice White · Mariah Carey · Stanley Clarke · Brandy · Berry Gordy · Smokey Robinson · Patrice Rushen · The Temptations · Third World · Eddie Murphy · The Dazz Band · George Duke · Billy Preston · Chaka Khan · MC Hammer · Def Leppard · Gerardo · Diana Ross · Herb Alpert · Lionel Richie · Ray Parker Jr. · Tina Turner · Snoop Dogg · Nate Dogg · Motörhead · Common · Baby · Sepultura · Dionne Warwick · Aaliyah · The Jacksons · Ray Charles

What Living Voice is

A real voice — not a chatbot.

You tap your phone, speak, and it answers out loud — built to teach and keep a Native language alive. It's not a generic app, but is custom built, from that nation's own language sources, and it defers to elders and community speakers as the true authority.

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You just talk

Tap the mic and speak naturally — "how do you say wolf?" — and it answers out loud, in the language.

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Slows down for you

Say "say it again, slower" and it repeats the word as many times as a learner needs.

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Carries the meaning

It shares what a word means to the people — and always points home to the elders who carry the true sound.

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Respects the protocols

It teaches everyday language warmly and leaves sacred or restricted content with the elders and the ceremony.

Live — running right now

Three agents.
Talk to them now.

These aren't concepts or mockups. All three are live and working today. Tap a mic in any phone below and speak — the agent answers out loud.

Speak: "How do you say wolf?" · "That's too fast, say it slower" · "What does it mean?"

Lakota Companion
Lakȟótiyapi
Serrano · San Manuel
Maarrenga'twichem
Apache Companion
Mescalero-Chiricahua
Why it matters

What's vanishing isn't the tribes — it's the languages.

Most Native languages have only a handful of elderly fluent speakers left. Building a custom voice agent takes real expertise and money — and the nations who need it most are the ones who can least afford the process. So the technology never reaches them.

"Every tribe should have its own Living Voice — for free, or next to nothing."

I'm not trying to sell agents one at a time. I want to fund a build-and-give model: I build the agents, and a mission-aligned partner carries the cost of putting them in tribes' hands — so the rollout never comes out of a nation's thin budget.

How it gets paid for

Built to be fundable.

Partner-funded distribution

A mission-aligned partner funds the rollout so we reach many nations at once — and the smallest tribes still get an agent free.

Fits the funding tribes already have

Living Voice fits existing federal language money — ANA's Esther Martinez Immersion, Native Language Preservation, Dept. of Ed NAL@ED. A nation can deploy it inside a grant it already qualifies for.

The nation stays the authority

Each agent is trained on the nation's language and cultural guidance. The tribe owns its language data — always.

Why a partnership

What I bring. What you bring.

I bring a proven, live voice technology and a 45-year studio career. The right partner brings community trust, language expertise, and funding reach. Together we can offer communities something neither of us has alone: a way to read it and speak it, and a path to put it in every tribe's hands for free.

The ask: partner with me to fund and distribute Living Voice to tribes for free.

Start with one lighthouse pilot, prove it with one nation, then scale the model across Indian Nations together.

Proposed pilot — Oglala Lakota College

Kyle, SD — recently awarded ~$747K for Lakota language work, aligned with relationships already underway in Rapid City. The Lakota agent is already built. Prove it with one nation, then roll out nation by nation.

Proof at a glance

Already live.

Status3 voice agents live and working today
TechnologyReal-time voice AI, per-language custom builds, elder-deferring design
Builder45-year recording engineer / producer
First pilotLakota — agent already built; Rapid City relationship active
Funding fitANA Esther Martinez / Preservation & Maintenance · Dept. of Ed NAL@ED · First Nations NLII

Let's put it in every nation's hands.

I'd welcome 20 minutes to show you the live agents and walk through the partnership.

Talk to the live agents
Bobby Brooks
bbthemixmaster@gmail.com (818) 376-9966

Living Voice · Partnership Proposal