Moshe, a computer programmer who suffers from a life-long stutter, tried every kind of treatment to ease the jaw spasms, severe facial twitches and feelings of suffocation he experienced whenever he spoke.
But every time he’d step out of a clinic or treatment center, he had no way of preserving the methods he had just been taught to manage his condition.
That’s when he decided to use his technological skills to develop an algorithm capable of analyzing and monitoring his speech to ensure he was practicing these various stuttering techniques correctly.
Six years later, he joined forces with speech language pathologists to create Novotalk – a startup that integrates his AI with established fluency strategies to help stutterers manage their condition anytime, anywhere. The online training can be used on a computer, tablet or even smartphone.
Around 80 million people worldwide – or one percent of the global population – suffer from a stutter.
According to the US-based National Stuttering Association, there is no unique factor that causes stuttering, but most believe it is down to a combination of environment, genetics and language development.
The 12-week speech therapy course combines clinically-validated Fluency Shaping Methods from Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem with sophisticated AI to create personalized exercises for its users.
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