A Proposed Framework for Stutter Detection: Implementation on Embedded Systems

It is estimated that more than 70 million people in the world stutter. One of the major problems facing speech professionals who collaborate with stuttering patients is quantitatively monitoring and tracking improvements in and outside of therapy sessions. After extensive research, it was proposed to develop a bio-medical device that could be worn daily by patients to monitor and record key events in everyday conversations to track instances of stutters to be later analyzed by speech professionals. This bio-medical innovation shall assist the health professionals and caretakers of the stuttering individuals to help them get out of this behavior and compete in the real world. This paper extensively describes in detail a feasibility study carried out and prototype developed for such a device and contemplates its future uses and developments. This biomedical innovation shall provide data regarding various parameters in stuttering which needs to be evaluated and this evaluation fastens the process of the therapy provided by health professionals.