Many kids have difficulty pronouncing certain sounds and their parents are forced to pay for speech therapy for their children. We hope to create a web application that doubles as a game in order to help children who are undergoing speech therapy recognize and pronounce certain sounds. The game should keep children wanting to play more, making their speech therapy seem like less of a chore and ...

My-Own-Voice is a service that provides a tool to end-users who want to have their voices synthesized by a high-quality commercial-grade Text-to-Speech system without the need to install, configure or manage speech-processing software and equipment. The system records and validates users’ utterances with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), to build an HMM or a Unit Selection synthetic voice. Al...

Automatic disorders recognition in speech can be very helpful for a therapist while monitoring therapy progress of patients with disordered speech. This article is focused on sound repetitions. The signal is analyzed using Continuous Wavelet Transform with 16 bark scales. Using the silence finding algorithm, only speech fragments are automatically found and cut. Each cut fragment is converted i...

A tracheostomy tube decreases the ability of the patient to communicate effectively. The ability to speak provides an important improvement in the quality of life for a patient with a tracheostomy. In mechanically ventilated patients, speech can be provided by the use of a talking tracheostomy tube, using a cuff-down technique with a speaking valve, and using a cuff-down technique without a spe...

The article shows the conceptual and terminological apparatus of rehabilitation area (physical therapy, ergotherapy, speech language physical therapist, ergotherapist) by analyzing legislative framework scientific sources. This analysis showed multidirectionality directions rehabilitation. Different specialists do separate tasks for therapy separately occupational therapy. approach contributes ...