Voiceitt and Apraxia: When Can It Work?
Voiceitt can support individuals with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), though success depends on sufficient speech consistency for the system to learn. While apraxia is a motor planning disorder that often results in variable errors, disrupted prosody, and reduced intelligibility—especially for unfamiliar listeners—speech is not random, and many individuals demonstrate consistent patterns within certain phonemic contexts, familiar phrases, or word structures. Because Voiceitt is a personalized speech recognition system that learns a user’s unique productions rather than comparing them to standard pronunciation, it may approximate the level of understanding achieved by familiar listeners. Training may require more recordings, careful phrase selection, and patience early on, and progress is often non-linear. Voiceitt can become a meaningful communication support that increases independence and reduces communication breakdowns, provided expectations are realistic, and progress is measured thoughtfully.
Teach Voiceitt to Understand You: A Complete Guide to Training, Annotation, and Maximizing Accuracy
Voiceitt is the world’s leading personalized speech recognition platform for people with non-standard speech. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to improve your experience, this guide walks you through everything you need to know about how Voiceitt learns, adapts, and improves-especially when you help it help you. In this post, we’ll cover: How to […]
Building Babel: Stepping Stones
Katie and I shared a dream: to create a world where technology empowers everyone regardless of their abilities. As speech-language pathologists at Voiceitt, we were already making strides in that direction. But we yearned for a bigger impact and a more…