How AI is changing speech therapy.

AI is changing speech therapy by automating the parts of clinical practice that benefit from large scale acoustic analysis, without replacing the parts that require human judgment. A'ber is an AI powered clinical speech therapy platform for dysarthria that illustrates the productive split: machine learning handles severity classification, exercise selection, and intensity calibration, while the speech language pathologist handles diagnosis, goal setting, and intervention planning.

Detailed content for this article is in preparation. Coverage will include where ML adds reliable value (acoustic measurement, longitudinal tracking, exercise selection), where it does not yet add reliable value (clinical diagnosis, social context, motivational coaching), and how to evaluate AI claims when choosing a digital speech therapy product.