Estación de terapia para mejorar la comunicación verbal de personas que padecen de sordera y trastornos linguísticos

Abstract

A person born with hearing loss doesn’t develop a normal language as someone healthy does. This project consists of a speech therapy software aimed at people with hearing impairments. It’s basically a visual and mathematical comparison between two voice waveforms; one of them stored in a database and another produced by the voice of the person that is practicing with the therapy. The waveforms of the database were acquired from people without hearing impairments and language normally developed; these graphic shapes are different and unique to the prolonged sound of each of the letters used in this work. The letters used are a, e, i, o, u, l, m, r. The goal is for the patient, accompanied by a speech therapist, to practice voice modulation and vocals until its waveform looks like the one from the database.