Assistive / Remedial / Diagnostic Speech Technology

• MISSION: A great wealth of speech and language technologies have been developed over the decades, such as Automatic Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis, Speaker Recognition,  Voice Transformation, Stochastic Parsing, and Machine Translation. But these technologies are largely unused and unknown in the clinical field. The mission of BioSpeech is to change this.
  

• PARTNERS: BioSpeech productizes software created at the world-renowned Center for Spoken Language Understanding at the Oregon Health & Science University.
  

• PRODUCT PIPELINE: The CSLU-BioSpeech product pipeline contains diagnostic systems, focusing on speech markers for neurological disorders such as autism, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Developmental Apraxia of Speech; and software for Augmentative and Alternative Communication devices.   This second product category is farthest advanced in the pipeline. 
  

• CURRENT PROJECTS: BioSpeech is the recipient of over $1,000,000 in federal STTR/SBIR funding.  Projects include:
  
• Small Footprint Text-to-Speech Synthesis
  
• Voice Transformation for Dysarthria
  
• User Adaptation of AAC Device Voices
• Computer-based auditory skill building program for aural (re)habilitation
• Computer assisted disfluency counts for stuttered speech
• Tools for Automated Assessment of Language