Method and device for enhancing the recognition of speech among speech-impaired individuals
First Claim
1. A computerized system for structuring recorded audio information to enable language-impaired individuals to better understand audio sounds, the system comprising:
- a computer having input means for receiving information including;
a processor means for manipulating the received information;
storage means for storing unprocessed received information and manipulated information; and
output means responsive to the processor means for presenting the manipulated information in a form understandable to a language-impaired userfirst program means for modifying recorded audio information which are digitally recorded audio sounds having a frequency range associated therewith to lengthen portions of selected phonemes without modifying the frequency range;
second program means responsive to received information and said processor means for storing the modified digitally recorded audio sounds; and
,third program means responsive to received information and to said processor to direct said stored, modified digitally recorded audio sounds to said output means.
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Abstract
A method and a system is disclosed that provide means to enable individuals with speech, language and reading based communication disabilities, due to a temporal processing problem, to improve their temporal processing abilities as well as their communication abilities. The method and system include provisions to elongate portions of phonemes that have brief and/or rapidly changing acoustic spectra, such as occur in the stop consonants b and d in the phonemes /ba/ and /da/, as well as reduce the duration of the steady state portion of the syllable. In addition, some emphasis is added to the rapidly changing segments of these phonemes. Additionally, the disclosure includes method for and computer software to modify fluent speech to make the modified speech better recognizable by communicatively impaired individuals. Finally, the disclosure includes method for and computer software to train temporal processing abilities, specifically speed and precision of temporal integration, sequencing and serial memory.
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1. A computerized system for structuring recorded audio information to enable language-impaired individuals to better understand audio sounds, the system comprising:
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a computer having input means for receiving information including;
a processor means for manipulating the received information;
storage means for storing unprocessed received information and manipulated information; and
output means responsive to the processor means for presenting the manipulated information in a form understandable to a language-impaired userfirst program means for modifying recorded audio information which are digitally recorded audio sounds having a frequency range associated therewith to lengthen portions of selected phonemes without modifying the frequency range; second program means responsive to received information and said processor means for storing the modified digitally recorded audio sounds; and
,third program means responsive to received information and to said processor to direct said stored, modified digitally recorded audio sounds to said output means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of increasing the ability of a human being to process aurally received audio sounds, the method comprising:
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a) recording verbal sounds in a computerized system; b) modifying the recording of certain short duration phonetic elements of said verbal sounds by computer program means without changing the fundamental frequencies of those elements and producing the digital signals from said verbal sounds; c) converting said modified digital signals to an analog signal; and
,d) generating aural signals of the converted analog signal. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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