Design of the Speech Tone Disorders Intervention System Based on Speech Synthesis

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 1617; no. 1; pp. 12078 - 12084
• Main Authors: Xinyi, Yang, Boyu, Si, Qingyun, Meng, Kailin, Huang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.08.2020
• Subjects: Graphical user interface; Mental disorders; Organs; Physics; Pitch; Rehabilitation; Speech; Speech recognition
• ISSN: 1742-6588; 1742-6596; 1742-6596
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1617/1/012078

Tone Disorder is a typical performance of speech impediment. It has become an urgent matter because of affecting patients' common communications. In this paper, a speech tone disorder intervention system is designed on MATLAB GUI. By sampling the patients' speech, extracting and adjusting the pitch information and synthesizing new speech, the system can help patients do self-intervention and build a 'speech-hearing feedback chain' for them during the rehabilitation process. The system is non-invasive for intervention of speech tone disorder from the uncoordinated movement of articulatory organs or psychological disorders. The results of two single-subject experiments prove that the system can improve the intervention effect of speech tone disorders intervention and increase the comprehensibility of users' speech.