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Researcher, Final-Year Project
Strathmore University · July 2021 - July 2022
Speech processingPhoneme analysisKenyan EnglishEvaluation
Description
Final-year research into speech-analysis approaches that preserve meaningful speech patterns and provide phoneme-level feedback.
Completed final-year research
The research question
What can computational speech analysis reveal when repetitions, hesitations, accent variation, and incomplete utterances are treated as information rather than noise?
My contribution
- Developed a speech-analysis system for children with articulation difficulties, autism, and speech impairments
- Preserved repetitions, incomplete utterances, and hesitations as potentially meaningful features
- Evaluated phoneme error rate and F1 and investigated Kenyan English accent variation
Outcomes & evidence
- A speech-analysis pipeline with phoneme-level feedback
- Richer representations of speech patterns instead of automatically discarding repetitions and hesitations as noise
- A final-year project presented at Strathmore University in 2022
Approach & methods
- Built a speech-analysis pipeline that retained potentially meaningful speech characteristics.
- Generated phoneme-level feedback and assessed phoneme error rate and F1.
- Investigated how Kenyan English accent variation affected model performance.
Scope & limitations
- The CV describes a research system, not reported clinical efficacy or a treatment outcome.
- No diagnostic accuracy, participant count, or numerical evaluation result is added beyond the supplied evidence.