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Children with severe speech impairments are often provided with communication aids to compose messages spoken using synthesised speech. However, communication aids can be slow and tiring to use. They do not promote natural communication due to the lack of eye-contact between conversation partners and the time taken to compose messages.This project will address these problems by producing VocaTempo, a new, app-based voice-input communication aid, which will recognise words spoken by a child with severely impaired speech and speak out a clear version of the message, making the aid easier, faster and more natural to use than current communication aids.

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