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The recent development in information technology contributes significantly in solving special needed people problems. This paper describes an ongoing project to help those children suffering from speech disorder problems. The current application is an interactive game using speech recognition technology; kid can interact with an animated picture using his/her voice. There are several levels for improving the speaking skills of children at different stages. Firstly, by encouraging child just to produce sounds then by improving his/her pronunciation skills by pronouncing short vocal Arabic words. This application solves speech disorder problems such as difficulty producing speech, dysfluency, shuttering and voice disorders. The current work is pioneer in developing an Arabic language application and targeted to children aged from 2 years to 7 years.
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Shalash, W.M., Bas-sam, M., Shawly, G. (2013). Interactive System for Solving Children Communication Disorder. In: Marcus, A. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability. Health, Learning, Playing, Cultural, and Cross-Cultural User Experience. DUXU 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8013. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39241-2_51
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