AI speech therapy for Parkinson's.

A'ber provides AI powered speech therapy for people with Parkinson's disease. Hypokinetic dysarthria affects up to 90% of people with Parkinson's, causing reduced loudness, imprecise articulation, monopitch, and variable speech rate. A'ber's adaptive therapy engine targets these specific deficits through clinician designed exercise protocols that adjust in real time to each patient's severity level and session to session progress.

The four hallmarks of Parkinson's speech

Parkinson's related speech changes follow a recognizable pattern. Loudness drops below the patient's own intended volume even when they perceive themselves as speaking at normal intensity. Articulation becomes imprecise, particularly on the alveolar and velar consonants. Pitch flattens into monopitch with reduced semitone variation. Rate becomes irregular, often accelerating into a festinating cluster mid sentence. A'ber measures all four on every session and tracks them over time so regression patterns become visible early.

How A'ber relates to LSVT LOUD

LSVT LOUD remains the current standard intensive treatment for Parkinson's related hypokinetic dysarthria. A'ber is not a replacement for LSVT LOUD. It is a complementary platform that extends therapy access beyond the 16 session LSVT protocol, enabling continued practice with clinical grade feedback between SLP visits. For patients in maintenance after completing LSVT, A'ber preserves the daily intensity the literature shows is required for gains to persist. For patients who cannot access LSVT trained clinicians, A'ber provides a structured alternative pathway that targets the same motor speech subsystems.

What a Parkinson's session looks like

A typical A'ber session for a patient with Parkinson's opens with a two minute warm up sequence: postural reset, neck rolls, lip trills, and a sustained hum. The patient then completes a loudness drill calibrated to their current severity, an articulation drill on the consonants the system has flagged as imprecise, an intonation glide, and a connected speech read of a short passage. The session closes with a snapshot showing the deltas on the four hallmark dimensions plus a one line plain language summary of what changed compared to last week.