Patent ID: 8682678
Filing Date: 2014-03-25
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A method for correcting effects of a user's speech impairment, comprising: obtaining audio signal of a speech; analyzing, by a processor, the audio signal to identify audio signal artifacts caused by the user' s speech impairment; modifying, by the processor, the audio signal by eliminating the identified audio signal artifacts from the audio signal based on a database of impairment-to-artifact associations; and providing the modified audio signal; wherein the database of impairment-to-artifact associations including repeated instances of phonemes associated with stuttering, inappropriate verbiage inserted into speech associated with Tourete Syndrome, and slurred pronunciation associated with lisping, wherein the analyzing further comprises identifying the audio signal artifacts caused by the user's speech impairment by employing identified differences between audio signals of the user reading a text with a predefined audio signal associated with the text.