postr/StutterMay 21, 2022

Creating a NeuralNetwork to (finally) help with stuttering

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Creating a NeuralNetwork to (finally) help with stuttering I have thought about this looong. a loong time; ever since I was born I was "sure" there would be a cure to stuttering(which was completely wrong) (No I did not realize that now - I realized it loong ago) (it wasn't new for me :P ) but- this time My stutter is extreme; I - cannot express anything in words anymore since; It effectively takes me 5 LUNGS to say Yes or No; (what should it then take to say "my name is william" (Yes my name is william )or even just "william" ??!) (if a 2letter 'word' requires me to use-up 5 lungs-of-capacity(that is; **literally -** no exaggeration) anyway; that was some background - now I got the courage to begin a life-long project; that is - a (broadly speaking) self-learning program that will (somehow) help stuttering (I have just begun it so I do not really know any specific - details; as I still have my oscp to complete; but just wanted to Write this out) Edit: How will it help? I have been studying(Not in school; but in free time; etc) (on breaks e.g) Neural Networks and deep learning - and so on - or quite some time now; and I think I will focus on making the NN(**Artificial** NeuralNetwork) learn and "predict" (at first; as a start-to begin somewhere) words(and, later to improve on that, correlate words-phrases-to things one stutter "more" on, and maybe it can -predict-and-help-by maybe; writing another word that is (for \*that specific person\*) easier to say than the "other" original word (like a synonym) - from learned text/pre-recorded talks(i.e me recording myself; reading something; and stuttering) -> as there is not (to **my knowledge)** Much (or any; "big") discovery-around stuttering (at the time) I decided this is probably my "best" go; I have no idea how it will turn out; But I assume worth a try! 2nd Edit: [https://github.com/loneicewolf/AI-SNN](https://github.com/loneicewolf/AI-SNN) (as said; it is now \`pretty empty\` but; Will add more) Good luck to every stutterer out there! Keep it up! ### ♥️ Hearts from Sweden to You all! ♥️ #### EDIT: As one probably seen above; grammar is not my strength. (`It is the same with speaking - by the way!`) - edit summary: added "Artificial" NeuralNetwork (..) to clarify; it's going a bit slow but; will update it now n then; posting a link as well; Just to introduce some context: https://www.ijert.org/research/stuttered-speech-recognition-using-convolutional-neural-networks-IJERTCONV9IS12057.pdf

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Community & SupportIdentity & DisabilitySpeech & Stuttering

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Research & ResourcesMedicalization / NeurodiversityOnset & Life-Stage Changes