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Use Case 20: An AI-Powered Augmentative and Alternative

Communication (AAC) tool

Country: Nigeria

Organization: AI4Africa

Contact Person(s):

Emmanuella Sule suleemmanuella0010@ gmail .com
Dr Houda Chihi houda.chihi@ supcom .tn
Emmanuel Aaron aaronemmanuel054@ gmail .com
Chidi Ebube chidizack24@ gmail .com
Emmanuel Ani ani.mlengineer@ outlook .com
Okafor Miracle Uche okaformiracle212@ gmail .com
Blessed Guda gudablessed@ gmail .com

1 Use Case Summary Table

Item Details
Category Healthcare
Problem to be addressed Challenges in communications for speech-impaired indi-
viduals.

Key solution Conversion and reconstruction of unintelligible dysarthria
speeches.

Technology keywords Communication disorder, Artificial Intelligence, Automatic
Speech Recognition system, speech reconstruction

Data availability Private.
Metadata (type of data) Structured and Unstructured (speaker ID, age, audio
recording).

Model Training and Fine-Tuning Supervised pre-training, transfer knowledge distilla-
tion(KD), fine-tuning on a small dataset

Testbeds or pilot Deployments Limi Hospital, Nigeria*
Code repositories Nill

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