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Development of a Reading Training Software offering Visual-Auditory Cue for Patients with Motor Speech Disorder

말운동장애인을 위한 시-청각 단서 제공 읽기 훈련 프로그램 개발

  • Bang, D.H. (Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Jeon, Y.Y. (Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Yang, D.G. (Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Kil, S.K. (Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Kwon, M.S. (Dept. of Neurology, Asan Medical Center) ;
  • Lee, S.M. (Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University)
  • Published : 2008.08.30

Abstract

In this paper, we developed a visual-auditory cue software for reading training of motor speech disorder patients. Motor speech disorder patients can use the visual and/or auditory cues for reading training and improving their symptom. The software provides some sentences with visual-auditory cues. Our sentences used for reading training are adequately comprised on modulation training according to a professional advice in speech therapy field. To ameliorate reading skills we developed two algorithms, first one is automatically searching the starting time of speech spoken by patients and the other one is removing auditory-cue from the recorded speech that recorded at the same time. The searching of speech starting time was experimented by 10 sentences per 6 subjects in four kinds of noisy environments thus the results is that $7.042{\pm}8.99[ms]$ error was detected. The experiment of the cancellation algorithm of auditory-cue was executed from 6 subjects with 1 syllable speech. The result takes improved the speech recognition rate $25{\pm}9.547[%]$ between before and after cancellation of auditory-cue in speech. User satisfaction index of the developed program was estimated as good.

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