SpeechViewer II

• Platform: IBM Machines from Mod 25 on.
• Description: SpeechViewer II is a speech therapy tool. It provides graphical feedback of various speech features so that speech impaired individuals can improve their speech. It works with an audio bandwidth of 7.3 Khz and thus allows the therapist to work with sustained vowels and fricatives. A wide range of graphics are used to provide adequate variability to hold client interest. An extensive set of statistics are gathered which allows a therapist to do research or keep therapy records. The speech therapy modules are:
  • Awareness - Sound, Loudness, Pitch, Voicing Onset, Voicing
  • Skill Building - Pitch, Voicing, Phonology
  • Patterning - Pitch & Loudness - Waveform & Spectrogram, Spectra
  • Clinical Management - Profiles, Models, Client Data
  A multilingual option is available which provides support for 12 languages: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and UK English. With the Multilingual Option, clinicians can use SpeechViewer II as a training tool for English as a second language and for foreign language training.
• Hardware: Requires an IBM M-ACPA (Multimedia-Audio Capture Playback Adapter). It has a TI TMS320C25 DSP chip. The input sampling rate is 44.1 Khz stereo, 88.2 Khz mono. This is a 16 bit card. It has the following jacks: mic in, stereo line in, stereo line out, speaker out. Note: This card is being replaced by Mwave technology. For more info on Mwave contact Texas Instruments.
• Price:
  • The software is $2130 list, $1491 educational, part number 92F2066.
  • The M-ACPA is $370 list, $222 educational, part number 92F3378.
  • The MicroChannel adapter part number is 92F3379 (same price).
• Contact: IBM Special Needs Information
  1000 N. W. 51st Street, Internal Zip 5432, Boca Raton, Florida 33431, USA
  Ph: 1-800-426-4832, TDD: 1-800-426-4833, Fax: 1-407-982-6059
  Email: IBM_SPEC_NEEDS_INFO@vnet.ibm.com
  WWW: http://www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/snsspv2.html

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