Enhancement of cleft lip and palate speech

Abstract

The individuals with cleft lip and palate CLP suffer from speech disorders due to articulatory impairments As a result measurable reductions are observed in the speech intelligibility and quality Despite the advances in surgical management the problems of articulation and resonance still remain to some degree in the individuals with CLP For repaired CLP speakers another direction of improvement in the speech intelligibility could be achieved through exploration of signal processing algor...