Dr. Eddie Chang

That is going to happen and it's going to happen soon.

And there's a lot of progress in that.

And again, we're just trying to enrich the field of communication, expression.

to make it more normal.

And we actually think that having that kind of avatar is a way of getting feedback to people learning how to speak through a speech neuroprosthetic.

That's the device that we call it.

It's a speech neuroprosthetic.

That is going to be the way that can help people learn how to do it the quickest.

Not necessarily like trying to say words and having it come on a screen, but actually have people embody, feel like it's part of themselves or that they are directly controlling that illustration or animation.

Stutter is a condition where the words can't come out fluently.

So you have all the ideas, you've got the language intact.

You know, remember we talked about this distinction between language and speech.

Stuttering is a problem of speech, right?

So the ideas, the meanings, the grammar, it's all there and people stutter, but they can't get the words out fluently.

So that's a speech condition.

And in particular, it's a condition that affects articulation.

specifically about controlling the production of words in this really coordinated kind of movements that have to happen in the vocal tract to produce fluent speech.

And stuttering is a condition where people have a predisposition to it.

So there's

an aspect of stuttering, you are a stutterer or you're not a stutterer, but people who stutter don't stutter all the time either.