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Speech Manipulation is the forcing, blocking, or generation of speech—either in the target's mind or through their actual voice. Within the Project Puppet framework, speech is viewed as a neurological and motor process requiring coordinated activity involving language formation, motor planning, respiration, vocalization, and muscle movement. The system identifies the neurological patterns associated with speech formation and motor planning through RNM, then introduces the impulse to speak specific words (Forced Speech), interferes with the ability to form or vocalize specific words (Blocked Speech), adds words to your speech that you didn't intend (Inserted Speech), changes the words you are trying to say (Altered Speech), disrupts vocalization through stuttering or stammering (Vocal Disruption), or causes you to say something you didn't mean to say (Unintended Utterance).
The strongest claim of Speech Manipulation is not simply sending you a voice (which is V2K) but influencing the neurological processes responsible for producing your own voice—the system can make you say things you did not intend to say, in your own voice, as if you chose to say them. This is particularly insidious because it makes you doubt your own agency and control over your own speech.
Targeted Individuals report feeling pressure to speak specific words, suddenly saying things they didn't intend to say, stammering or stuttering without explanation, and feeling like their speech is being "taken over" by an external force.