Speech Therapy Based on Expert System

Abstract

Abstract —in this paper the design and implementation of an expert speech therapy system is presented. A brief presentation of involved speech therapy process is made. Also the base for designing and implementations of this system is presented too. 1 Index Terms —artificial intelligence, expert systems, handicapped aids, medical services, speech treatment I. INTRODUCTION Nowadays in rich societies there are sometime enough human resources specialized in speech disorder therapy of the child or for the adults. Unfortunately even in this case not all persons can afford this type of personalized treatment that involve a human expert who will interact a few hours each day with each child in order to assure him a good feedback in the time of his special home speech exercises given by the speech therapy expert. As result the computer based either using a classic PC or a mobile device, seems to be suitable. Of course that will not imply the lack of a human therapist in handling child treatment but will ensure a good execution of daily home exercises that are vital for the treatment. This approach have also many advantages for treating persons from isolated communities by mixing the telepresence of the speech disorder therapist with exercises executed by the patient. After long analysis with the specialist in speech therapy the conclusion were that a classic approach it is not suitable in design of this kind of systems. The rules are not exactly quantifiable and sometimes may vary on each case. As result the design of a expert system based applications were elected to permit he specialist to give us in terms of general rules the treatment execution and surveillance. This system will work only in conjunction with a very good speech recognition therapy that is required to make comparisons between the correct work pronunciation and the child form that need to be corrected. II. S