Speech technology applied to children with speech disorders

This paper introduces an informatic applications for speech therapy in Spanish language based on the use of Speech Technology. The objective of this work is to help children with different speech impairments to improve their communication skills. Speech technology provides methods which can help chi...

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Fecha de publicación:
2008
Institución:
Universidad del Rosario
Repositorio:
Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/30084
Acceso en línea:
https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/30084
Palabra clave:
Pre-Language
Language
Speech processing
Speech therapy
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Summary:This paper introduces an informatic applications for speech therapy in Spanish language based on the use of Speech Technology. The objective of this work is to help children with different speech impairments to improve their communication skills. Speech technology provides methods which can help children who suffer from speech disorders to develop pre-Language and Language. For pre-Language development the informatic application works on speech activity detection and intensity control, and for Language the application works on three levels of language: phonological, semantic and syntactic. This application is designed to enable those suffer from speech disorders to train their communication capabilities in an easy and entertaining way. This tool is available for free distribution.