Expensive ear devices like speecheasy tend to wear off until the positive effects are gone, and it would have been better without the device. Ear pieces make use of the choral effect. A cheaper alternative to benefit from the choral effect is: (both options are FREE) Exercise 1: * Speak to people (while at the same time you are visualizing that you are speaking alone). If you divide this exercise into 3 or more steps, it enables you to make progression towards subconscious fluency and stuttering remission Exercise 2: * This speech therapist and researcher explains this exercise: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qLNL5Hc6Zo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qLNL5Hc6Zo) * Speak to people (while at the same time you are visualizing that a big group of people are chorally saying the exact same words/sounds WHAT and HOW you are going to say them. * Focus on maintaining the forward flow of speech (aka fluency) over speech accuracy (or clarity). Argument: "*Because just like in choral reading and delayed auditory feedback, they both force the speaker to give priority to maintaining the forward flow of speech - in order to keep up with the chorus or with the metronome beat - resulting in the release threshold falling to a lower setting. This is similar to a musician in an orchestra, whereby, if he plays a wrong or distorted note, or misses a note, he simply has to carry on as if nothing has happened.*" * In other words, prioritize fluency over speech accuracy * Put complete faith in the feedforward system (aka the automatic forward flow of speech rather than controlled accurate speech) * Speak on the timing of your own planned intention/prosody * Do not perceive speech errors (like anticipation, fear, tension, etc) as a problem or to be avoided * In other words, continue the forward flow of speech regardless. * If we could simply accept that our speech has a tendency to be error prone, then we would probably never develop a stutter despite the underlying neurological weaknesses * Source: lesson [1](https://stammeringresearch.org/onlinecourse/orchestral-speech/),[ 2](https://stammeringresearch.org/onlinecourse/orchestral-speech/getting-started/), [3](https://stammeringresearch.org/onlinecourse/orchestral-speech/reading-to-other-people/), [4](https://stammeringresearch.org/onlinecourse/orchestral-speech/in-conversation/) and [5](https://stammeringresearch.org/onlinecourse/orchestral-speech/q-and-a/)