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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 »

Speech Pathology, Helping People Talk Better by just 4 families Patient Expert

Posted Fri 16 Jul 2010 5:06am There is a single area of medicine that many people are making their way into in order to make a good living. This area which is experiencing a boom is speech pathology. Speech pathology is an area that deals with speech disorders and their treatment. One of the biggest speech disorders is stuttering. This is where the individual struggles to s ... Read on »

Speech Therapy Is About More Than Just Speech by Chrisa H. Facebook

Posted Sun 14 Aug 2011 12:22am This post is part of Best of the Best Edition 9: Special Needs Therapy. If you click this link starting August 15th, you'll find similar articles by other authors. Tim’s first diagnosis, at age four, was Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified. That’s a long, fancy way of saying, “we have no idea what’s going on with your ... Read on »

Speech Disturbances by Dorothy E Ross PhD CCC-SLP Aphasia NYC Posted Mon 25 Jan 2010 12:00am A. Disturbances in the Speech Area of the Brain. Various parts of the brain are involved in the use of language, the sensory areas of hearing and vision, the area in which memories are recorded, the area in which imagination and creative thinking occur, and the areas in which the muscle actions are coordinated and initiated. These areas, inte ... 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 »

Why look at stuttered speech? by Tom Weidig Posted Tue 03 Mar 2009 12:00am Look at this intriguing article from China. They seem to have found a genetic relationship between dopamine and stuttering. However, I am not geneticist, so I do not know exactly what the result means and whether the results are reliable or not. Maybe a reader can help us out? Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao. 2009 Mar;29(3):375-80. ... 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 »