Thank you! This is amazing what wrote about stuttering mechanism: hardware and software. This is my attempt to summarize it. **Summary:** There's two parts to speech: hardware & software: 1. Bad software, bad hardware: Stutter 2. Bad software, good hardware: Stutter, severe stutter 3. Good software, bad hardware: Fluent slow speaker 4. Good software, good hardware: Fluent So, it's all about the software. Ironically, you would get severe stutter with good hardware since we are capable of speaking fast but it's running on defective software. Think of a bad driver on a sports car. Stutter only happens when the software misjudge the hardware Difference between stuttering & fluency is just the timing. For example: `A...B..C.....D` - for some reason this is fluent on hardware X `A..B....C..D` - for some other reason this would stutter on hardware X *The key is to find what hardware you are on & adjust the "software" - by doing this:* * Practice talking to yourself alone until you don't stutter anymore. Now you know your **hardware** * Acknowledge that you can't consciously fix stuttering. It's like driving. The best driver don't have to think about it. You need practice to re-wire the software * Start small & talk 1 on 1 with your close friend until you are "fluent" * The point here is to practice the right commands for your brain to execute with the timing you want. The key here is to do whatever it takes to remain "fluent" by finding the 'right' intervention * Try to analyze why you stutter saying the word * As you get better with staying "fluent", try removing some of the interventions that you employ * Speak with others and imitate their fluency mechanism. It's harder than it sounds since different people would often times mess up your software when you are trying to imitate how they speak on your hardware * To get fluency you need to fine tune your software to work with your hardware