Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Speech Clarifier or Articulator - Assistive Technology

This blog posting is in response to the Make Magazine request to "Invent a Speech Aid to Help Malia Communicate"


Those with these conditions might have troubles with others understanding their speech....Stroke, Aphonia, Dysphonia, Laryngectomy, Cerebral Palsy, Voice Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis, Spinal Cord Injury, Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease, Traumatic Brain Injury, Muscular Dystrophy, Other Neuromuscular Disorders, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Spasmodic Dysphonia, Paralyzed Vocal Cords.

The purpose of this post is to provide a list of some existing "speech clarifiers".  People can then use these off-the-shelf solutions and/or inventors can make new and better clarifiers.  Using the search string below, you can find "more like this", if needed.

This post concentrates on voice-in > clarified voice out, instead of other adaptive devices, e.g. text to speech, point at icons, etc.

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Speech Enhancer 

 Speech generating devices for children with cerebral palsy
THE TALKITT APP

Speech-generating device

 10 Must Have Products for Individuals with Cerebral Palsy - and especially - The Special Needs iPad & App Series

 A Voice-Input Voice-Output Communication Aid

 Speech-to-Speech (STS) relay 

VIVOCA - Voice Input Voice Output Communication Aid  

 How technology is helping people with speech impairments to talk 

 VocaliD crowdsources human speech to create custom digital voices

 How Intel Gave Stephen Hawking a Voice

 and Why Intel made Stephen Hawking's speech system open source

 Speech synthesis

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Search String - (speech OR voice OR linguistic) (aid OR enhancer OR clarifier OR assist OR articulator) (cerebral OR palsy OR disabled OR handicapped)

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Please add more resources or comment as you see fit.

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Article is for information only and is not medical advice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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