Computerized Method for Diagnosing and Analyzing Speech Articulation Disorder for Malay Language Speakers

Mohd Nizam Mazenan ,Lau Chee Yong,Tan Tian Swee

doi:10.19026/rjaset.7.925

Abstract

This study aims to develop a computerized technique that uses speech recognition as a helping tool in speech therapy diagnosis for early detection. Somehow speech disorder can be divided into few categories which not all type will be fully covered in this research. This study only purposes a solving method for diagnosis of a patient that suffers from articulation disorder. Therefore a set of Malay language vocabulary has already been designed to tackle this issue where it will cover selected Malay consonants as a target words. Ten Malay target words had been choose to test the recognition accuracy of this system and the sample are taken from real patient from Hospital Sultanah Aminah (HSA: Speech therapist at Speech Therapy Center) where the hospital assists in the clinical trial. The result accuracy of the systems will help the Speech Therapist (ST) to give an early diagnosis analysis for the patient before next step can be purposed. An early percentage of correct sample achieved almost 50% in this experiment.

Highlights

The speech therapy technique that been done in most hospital, clinic or speech center are using manual technique
This manual technique is often refer as a traditional method which may be considered by many Speech Therapist (ST) to embrace 'traditional' approaches (Powers, 1971)
Experimental setup: The experiment been conducted by having a control set of specific target words that been used in speech therapy, real patient from Hospital Sultanah Aminah (HSA) and a normal quiet room environment that for Corresponding Author: Tan TianSwee, Medical Implant Technologi Group (MediTEG), Material Manufacturing Research Alliance (MMRA), Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, Faculty of Biosciences and Medical Engineering (FBME), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310 Skudai Johor, Malaysia

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The speech therapy technique that been done in most hospital, clinic or speech center are using manual technique. This manual technique is often refer as a traditional method which may be considered by many ST to embrace 'traditional' approaches (Powers, 1971). The common practice of this method can be seen by having clients speaking aloud and repeat words over and over again as a way to detect or correct the target words. As of this process going through, the "tool" that only been rely by the ST is their hearing and experience judgment. That would go on for an hour and sometimes it would lead to error elimination during the process (Riper Van, 2007)

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