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📣 koksinghew

App Idea to Cure Stuttering


I've struggled with stuttering since I was 9. It continues to affect me even now. This is something only my family knows about. Anyone else facing this? Any advice or experiences to share?

I'm thinking to build something to help people like me.


  👤 ada1981 Accepted Answer ✓
My dad had a stutter as a kid.

When he was playing tennis, the kid across the court was mocking my dads stutter. At some point my dad lost it, jumped the net and started beating the shit out of the kid. While he was on top of him, my dad was “mocking” the other kid by talking how he talked… turns out the kid didn’t have a stutter.

My dad never had a stutter again.

Have you done deeper psychological work to explore what is going on with you when you were 9? Transpersonal work? I’m a coach and would be happy to have a gifted session with you to explore if any of our tools can help.


👤 Trouble_007
app to delay audio from the phone microphone and bluetooth feed to 'bone conduction headphones' May work?

>Auditory processing deficits have also been proposed as a cause of stuttering.

Stuttering is less prevalent in deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals,

and stuttering may be reduced when auditory feedback is altered,

such as by masking, delayed auditory feedback (DAF), or frequency altered feedback.

There is some evidence that the functional organization of the auditory cortex may be different in people who stutter.

Stuttering : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttering

Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_auditory_feedback

Bone conduction : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_conduction


👤 koksinghew
I imagine something that can provide real-time feedback using voice recognition and AI analysis, possibly monitor physiological signals related to stress that cause stutter