CoachLea: an Android Application to Evaluate the Speech Production and Perception of Children with Hearing Loss

Schäfer P, Perez Toro PA, Klumpp P, Orozco Arroyave JR, Nöth E, Maier A, Abad A, Schuster M, Arias Vergara T (2022)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2022

Publisher: International Speech Communication Association

Book Volume: 2022-September

Pages Range: 1959-1960

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Event location: Incheon, KOR

Abstract

Hearing loss can affect children's language, speech, and social skills development. Hearing problems can result from impaired auditory feedback due to various reasons such as trauma, a clinical condition, genetic alterations, and infections, among others. Early treatment is the key to successful hearing and speech rehabilitation if the hearing loss occurs before or during spoken language acquisition. In this work, we present CoachLea, an Android application to support the clinical evaluation and therapy of the speech production and perception of children with hearing loss. The app includes numerous daily exercises to capture speech and hearing data continuously and longitudinally using a game-like user interface. Speech exercises include the “Snail race”, “Animal Sounds”, and “Image identification”, whereas the hearing exercise consists of a word identification game based on minimal pairs with speech-in-noise recordings. In the long term, CoachLea aims to be a tool that supports the therapy of children with hearing loss.

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Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID) Portugal (PT) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Germany (DE)

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APA:

Schäfer, P., Perez Toro, P.A., Klumpp, P., Orozco Arroyave, J.R., Nöth, E., Maier, A.,... Arias Vergara, T. (2022). CoachLea: an Android Application to Evaluate the Speech Production and Perception of Children with Hearing Loss. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp. 1959-1960). Incheon, KOR: International Speech Communication Association.

MLA:

Schäfer, Paula, et al. "CoachLea: an Android Application to Evaluate the Speech Production and Perception of Children with Hearing Loss." Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022, Incheon, KOR International Speech Communication Association, 2022. 1959-1960.

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