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Laying the Groundwork to Diagnose Speech Impairments in Children with Clinical AI
 Speech and language impairments affect over a million children every year, and identifying and treating these conditions early is key to helping these children overcome them. Marisha Speights has built a data pipeline to train clinical artificial intelligence tools for childhood speech screening and will present her work Monday, May 19, at the 188th ASA Meeting. They collected a representative sample of speech from children across the country, verified transcripts and enhanced audio quality using their custom software, and provided a platform that will enable detailed annotation by experts.
May 19, 2025
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