Development of an Assistive Aid for Speech Impaired
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چکیده
Speech impairment refers to the inability to produce normal speech. Dysarthria is a kind of speech disorder where there is a difficulty in producing the normal speech. The proposed system makes use of an acoustic plate that senses the vocal cord vibrations.When a set of unpatterned words are spoken by the user, the words are compared with the preprogrammed words in the speech IC where it is analysed and corresponding audio output is heard through the speaker. This system can be implemented in realtime to express the basic needs of speech impaired.
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