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Old 03-23-2013, 12:08 PM #1
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Default iParkinsons product--anyone familiar with this?

http://casafuturatech.com/index.php/...ts/iparkinsons

(of course it is very expensive. madelyn)


What Is iParkinsons?

iParkinsons is an iOS app that treats the speech disorders associated with Parkinson's disease, including hypokinetic dysarthria. iParkinsons changes how your hear your voice in earphones, in three ways:

Multitalker babble noise treats hypophonia or low vocal volume. It sounds likes a party with people talking around you. This induces the Lombard effect and increases vocal volume 5-10 dB. [1]
Delayed auditory feedback (DAF) treats festinating speech or "run together" words. The user hears his or her voice delayed a fraction of a second. This helps pace the user's speech. [2] [3]
Pitch-shifting frequency-altered auditory feedback (FAF) changes the pitch of the user's voice in his or her earphones. This increases speech motor activity and articulation clarity in some persons with Parkinson's.
iParkinsons also provides a visual display of your vocal volume. You try to get your voice into the red zone, indicating that you are loud.

Each person with Parkinson's is unique. There isn't one speech disorder associated with Parkinson's; there are several speech disorders, each of which responds to a different treatment. iParkinsons is a "tool kit" that can be customized for each user, unlike other "one size fits all" speech therapy programs.

iParkinsons requires little or no training, therapy, cognitive effort, or exercises. It can be set up in an hour and it can be used by persons experiencing cognitive decline.
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Olsen,

Thanks for this: it's an important area.

It doesn't have even half the functionality that you mention, but there's an interesting program called Audacity which you can download for free.

You can use it to measure the volume of your voice and "see" it.

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