1306 Malay articulation disorder diagnostic tool design by using Hidden Markov Model

Speech disorder issue among people around the world is not a new thing where it affect the way if human communication and interaction. To help by diagnosis, preventing, and treatment for this problem is often been done by medical practitioners who expert in this field especially speech therapist (ST) or speech language pathologist (SLP). Few assessments will be conducted by ST over the patient and mostly the process is still using manual technique whereby the ST relies from their human hearing and their years of experience. This paper surveys the technique and method use by ST at Hospital Sultanah Aminah (HSA) to help patient that suffer from speech disorder especially in articulation disorder cases. Few experiment and result had also been present in this paper where the computerized speech diagnosis system is being tested by using real patient voice sample that been collected from HSA and the students from Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Universiti Satu. The basic concept of speech especially in a Malay language context had also been described and explained in this paper.