STAN: A stuttering therapy analysis helper
This addresses the need for personalized and consistent stuttering therapy for speech therapists and patients, but it is incremental as it builds on existing automated feedback concepts.
The authors tackled the problem of high cognitive load on speech therapists during stuttering therapy sessions by introducing STAN, an automated feedback system that aids therapists, resulting in more consistent therapy and enabling analysis of stuttering across multiple sessions.
Stuttering is a complex speech disorder identified by repeti-tions, prolongations of sounds, syllables or words and blockswhile speaking. Specific stuttering behaviour differs strongly,thus needing personalized therapy. Therapy sessions requirea high level of concentration by the therapist. We introduceSTAN, a system to aid speech therapists in stuttering therapysessions. Such an automated feedback system can lower thecognitive load on the therapist and thereby enable a more con-sistent therapy as well as allowing analysis of stuttering overthe span of multiple therapy sessions.