representing on the speech therapy i bad at that we work and in the fall
of two thousand eleven it really is targeted towards children between the three to five
one with a cleft lip or pilot which is basically a notch in the upper
lip or in the room for them out and
one of that side effects of having that is that pronouncing sounds is a great
difficulty for them and possible procedures are surgical procedures a prosthetic and speech therapy which
is where we come in a rap out is designed after i'd how to train
speech therapist would deal with this in which
in which i word is prompted in the child is required to repeat that word
and the speech their pyjamas where that's right around and this process continues to iteration
for different words and phonemes until the correct pronunciations found these were the existing to
have to be looked when we were making is a wrap a does something that
is more than these
because it provides unsupervised feedback and so the child can do it without the strings
for our purpose there and that's a good supplement existing work correctly looking like sars
they say incorrectly the mlp they will be judged to evaluate harshly there's
it is no nothing on the screen that's like is that the strong it'll just
keep going we didn't wanna have a negative feedback is really wants to discourage get
some try at the end it'll give i get like a little like celebration the
results were like avatar that'll dance around for the speech therapist for the
for the parent they can also review statistics on how well the channel is doing
and how well charleston for specific words even so they can look at worse a
specific sounds in it don't know where the target sound or in the word because
that's actually also very important for
although you a nice be certain things depending on where the sound is maybe more
or less people said that only ready us about that longer pronouncing size more accurate
estimate
and so we bailed five different models for comparison of that was all the pronunciations
and we always what we recorded sound we transform it into wave like this with
this time
so some the signal we can compare it to some baseline a and doubt we
have recorded data correct pronunciations about sixty words that are normally most problematic and doubt
that not in the at we are able to from but it for that work
that judge whether it was set correctly or not
so at the end of a day it's you know this may be able to
sit down and applying either applying all a computer science as skills that we've had
not taking all the classes that were taken in gettysburg and trying to change the
world