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A terapia da fala é uma ciência da área da saúde que trata distúrbios no campo da linguagem. Foca-se essencialmente em situações de atraso no desenvolvimento e de perturbações especificas da linguagem falada e escrita, mas também nas perturbações articulatórias, no caso da voz, e mesmo em situações de perturbação da fala, quer resultantes de lesão neurológica quer na dificuldade em executar os movimentos necessários à sua produção. O terapeuta da fala é o profissional que tem como função o tratamento e estudo científico da comunicação e por consequência identificar e tentar tratar os distúrbios e perturbações a ela associados. Verificamos que existe uma lacuna ao nível de soluções tecnológicas que ajudem o terapeuta da fala na sua atividade pelo que definimos que o objetivo principal da presente dissertação seria o de tentar perceber e analisar tecnologias que pudessem proporcionar o desenvolvimento de uma solução com potencial para ajudar estes profissionais. Para o efeito entramos em contato com terapeutas da fala que prontamente se disponibilizaram a supervisionar este trabalho sob o ponto de vista dos procedimentos necessários para a implementação da solução a desenvolver. Estas reuniões e sugestões proporcionaram o planeamento do EasyTEFA tendo sido possível adaptar os requisitos ao seu desenvolvimento. Após terem sido analisadas diferentes tecnologias potenciais de reconhecimento de voz a ser utilizadas para o desenvolvimento do protótipo demos início ao processo de planeamento do desenvolvimento do EasyTEFA. Com os requisitos definidos e considerando a existência de algumas limitações nas tecnologias analisadas, construiu-se, desenhou-se e implementou-se o protótipo que foi testado e avaliado nas vertentes de usabilidade e funcionalidade tendo sido analisados e explorados os resultados obtidos. Conclui-se que com esta solução é apresenta uma mais valia no âmbito do tratamento de problemas da fala e que pode contribuir para uma análise e até tratamentos mais eficazes, sobretudo com crianças. O trabalho termina com a apresentação de algumas conclusões.
Speech therapy is a health science that treats language disorders. It focuses mainly on situations of developmental delay and specific disorders of spoken and written language, but also on articulatory disorders in the case of voice, and even in situations of speech impairment, whether resulting from neurological damage or difficulty in performing the necessary movements for its production. The speech therapist is the professional whose function is the treatment and scientific study of communication and consequently identify and try to treat the disorders and perturbations associated with it. We verified that there is a gap in the level of technological solutions that help the speech therapist in his activity, so we defined that the main objective of the present dissertation would be to try to understand and analyze technologies that could provide the development of a potential solution to help these professionals. For this purpose, we contacted speech therapists who readily offered to supervise this work from the point of view of the necessary procedures for the implementation of the solution to be developed. These meetings and suggestions provided the planning for EasyTEFA and it was possible to adapt the requirements to its development. After analyzing different potential speech recognition technologies to be used for prototype development we started the EasyTEFA development planning process. With the defined requirements and considering the existence of some limitations in the analyzed technologies, the prototype that was tested and evaluated in the usability and functionality aspects was built, designed and implemented and the results obtained were analyzed and explored. It is concluded that this solution has added value in the treatment of speech problems and can contribute to a more effective analysis and even treatments, especially with children. The work ends with the presentation of some conclusions.
Speech therapy is a health science that treats language disorders. It focuses mainly on situations of developmental delay and specific disorders of spoken and written language, but also on articulatory disorders in the case of voice, and even in situations of speech impairment, whether resulting from neurological damage or difficulty in performing the necessary movements for its production. The speech therapist is the professional whose function is the treatment and scientific study of communication and consequently identify and try to treat the disorders and perturbations associated with it. We verified that there is a gap in the level of technological solutions that help the speech therapist in his activity, so we defined that the main objective of the present dissertation would be to try to understand and analyze technologies that could provide the development of a potential solution to help these professionals. For this purpose, we contacted speech therapists who readily offered to supervise this work from the point of view of the necessary procedures for the implementation of the solution to be developed. These meetings and suggestions provided the planning for EasyTEFA and it was possible to adapt the requirements to its development. After analyzing different potential speech recognition technologies to be used for prototype development we started the EasyTEFA development planning process. With the defined requirements and considering the existence of some limitations in the analyzed technologies, the prototype that was tested and evaluated in the usability and functionality aspects was built, designed and implemented and the results obtained were analyzed and explored. It is concluded that this solution has added value in the treatment of speech problems and can contribute to a more effective analysis and even treatments, especially with children. The work ends with the presentation of some conclusions.
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Terapia da fala APIs áudio EasyTEFA Speech Recognition Saúde Speech therapy Audio APIs Health