Sprachspiegel System for speech therapy, speech training and communication for persons with language, speech or voice disorders

<p>Current technological developments in the field of speech recognition will be adapted for persons with language, speech or voice disorders. A system will be developed to support speech therapy and independed training of patients. It also can be used as communication aid for persons with little functional speech. In therapy the system delivers subtly differentiated and high quality information via speech recognition technology.</p>

<p>The system can be used by the patient for independent training in the time between the therapy sessions. The therapist can evaluate the results of the training and derive consequences for the next steps in therapy.</p>

<p>For the function as communication aid it is the aim of the project to translate the utterances of a person with little functional speech into intelligible speech output. In addition the system can give a feedback about articulation disorders on the basis of physiological data.</p>