Scientific studies on infants show a strong improvement in pronunciation and speech when speech practice begins as early as possible. Unfortunately, hard of hearing newborns cannot undergo cochlear implant surgery until six months after birth. Therefore, we have developed the Ra&D project FunSpeech, a serious game that aims to help young implanted children to improve their speech production abilities through frequent practice. FunSpeech has been carried out with good preliminary results in a control population of normal hearing children, indicating that it has the potential to successfully fill the gap in applications targeting speech production skills in young children with hearing implants.
Project leader - team
Florent Glück
(HEPIA),
Sébastien Chassot
,
Steven Liatti
,
Maëlys Le Magadou
,
Gregory Valentini
,
Marielle Deriaz
,
Mireille Bétancourt
,
Angelica Perez