NOVA LINCS, Department of Computer Science, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022 Jun 6;290:924-928. doi: 10.3233/SHTI220215.
Children with speech sound disorders should attend speech and language therapy and should practice the speech exercises regularly to surpass their speech difficulties. Since doing the speech exercises often may be tedious, there is the need to motivate children to practice them. During the COVID-19 pandemic, speech and language pathologists had the need to adapt their procedures to others with less physical contact. Here, we propose two serious games to motivate children with sigmatism on doing the speech exercises, which can be used at home and during face-to-face and online speech therapy sessions. The games use automatic speech recognition to classify speech productions. Visual and auditory feedback are used to help children understand their performance, and a hint system is used to help them perform the exercises correctly. A dynamic difficulty adjustment system is used to change the level of difficulty according to the child's speech performance in previous trials.
患有语音障碍的儿童应接受言语和语言治疗，并应定期练习言语练习以克服其言语困难。由于经常进行语音练习可能会很乏味，因此需要激励儿童进行练习。在 COVID-19 大流行期间，言语语言病理学家需要将其程序适应与他人的身体接触减少。在这里，我们提出了两个严肃的游戏来激励有口吃的儿童进行语音练习，这些游戏可以在家中和面对面以及在线语音治疗期间使用。这些游戏使用自动语音识别来对语音产生进行分类。使用视觉和听觉反馈来帮助儿童了解自己的表现，使用提示系统来帮助他们正确地进行练习。使用动态难度调整系统根据儿童在前几次试验中的语音表现来调整难度级别。
