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Guest blog - About the Amazon Kindle text-to-speech function by Rudy S. Patient Expert

Posted Tue 07 Apr 2009 11:10pm Thanks so much to Penny Reeder for sending me this Penny Reeder Content Specialist Gettinghired, LLC http://www.gettinghired.com More on Text-to-Speech and the Kindle 2: Demonstration in Front of the Authors' Guild April 7; Online Petition, Sign It Now! We were delighted to learn that Amazon.com, responding to an onl ... Read on »

Holistic Medicine to cure Stuttering or Slurred Speech by K.C A. Posted Fri 21 Aug 2009 9:27am From an email enquiry: "I am a 45 year old woman who has never had problems speaking clearly. I have been part of my church choir for decades now and work as a teacher. For the past few months I have had difficulty on and off speaking without slurring. This causes me deep stress as my profession requires me to speak all the time. I do not have ... Read on »

Holistic Healing to cure Stuttering or Slurred Speech by K.C A. Posted Sun 27 Sep 2009 7:10am From an email enquiry: "I am a 45 year old woman who has never had problems speaking clearly. I have been part of my church choir for decades now and work as a teacher. For the past few months I have had difficulty on and off speaking without slurring. This causes me deep stress as my profession requires me to speak all the time. I do not have ... Read on »

A Few Words About Speech Difficulties by Bill S. Health Maven

Posted Tue 17 Aug 2010 10:09am Posted on 08/17/10, in , by Parky Bill If you would have asked me a year ago, I would have said that it was my understanding that the only difficulty associated with Parkinson’s disease is the way many Parkies speak softly with whispery, reedy voices. I never thought I would have a problem with that. St ... Read on »

Nuance Buys MacSpeech – Speech Recognition for Apple by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Tue 16 Feb 2010 11:40am For those using healthcare software on Applethis appears to be an indication that you may see more developments in the future. Macspeech already exists and based on what I have seen with acquisition with Nuance in the pastthings seem to move upwards and further options seem to come alongwhich is good for us users. The company has severa ... Read on »

Beyond speech recognition to speech understanding: Podcast interview with M*Modal’s Juergen Fritsch (transcript) by David W. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 26 Apr 2010 12:32pm This is a transcript of my recent podcast interview with M*Modal’s Chief Scientist, Juergen Fritsch. David Williams: This is David Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Business Blog. I’m speaking today with Juergen Fritsch, Chief Scientist at M*Modal . Thanks for your time today. Juergen Fritsch: Thanks ... Read on »

Aphasias Speech And Language Problems Targeted For Speech Therapy by Dorothy E Ross PhD CCC-SLP Aphasia NYC Posted Sat 26 Dec 2009 12:00am Posted Saturday, December 26th, 2009 Aphasia can bring about a lot of speech and language problems that are to be treated for speech therapy. The kind of speech and language problems brought by Aphasia would highly depend on the kind of Aphasia that you may have. Brocas Aphasia Broca’s Aphasia is also known as motor aphasia. You can obtain ... Read on »

Speech Delay Part 3: Speech Therapy Exercises by SurvivingSingleMotherhood Posted Mon 22 Sep 2008 11:03am We missed speech therapy this week because the little one had a sore throat runny nose thing going on. But so far it's been going really well. The first week, she said her skills were significantly better from when she was evaluated. (I keep telling everyone she's just a late talker...) But that her sentences are very choppy. She had the p ... Read on »

speech, speech by Kim C. Patient Expert

Posted Thu 22 Jan 2009 4:01pm To the complainers, who say the inauguration went on and on or the speech too long or not "one for the ages", I say: I loved the speech - but I was prepared to love it & was not listening with a critic's ear. I can tell you that everyone around me was listening with rapt attention and did not seem bored or impatient in the least. As for length, ... Read on »

Obama’s Back to School Speech: 5 Points for Obama’s Speech to Students by Vanessa Van Petten Patient Expert

Posted Fri 04 Sep 2009 10:04pm On Tuesday, September 8th, Obama will speak directly to students about the need to work hard and stay in school. His address will be shown live on the White House Web site and on C-SPAN at noon EST. Teachers are encouraged to tune in and let their student’s watch. I am so excited to hear what President Obama has to say to students this ye ... Read on »