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J. Biomedical Science and Engineering, 2010, 3, 85-94 JBiSE doi:10.4236/jbise.2010.31013 Published Online January 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jbise/). Cepstral and linear prediction techniques for improving intelligibility and audibility of impaired speech G. Ravindran1 2 3 , S. Shenbagadevi , V. Salai Selvam 1Faculty of Information and Communication Engineering, College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India; 2Faculty of Information and Communication Engineering, College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India; 3Department of Electronics Communication Engineering, Sriram Engineering College, Perumalpattu, India. Email: vsalaiselvam@ Received 30 October 2009; revised 20 November 2009; accepted 25 November 2009. ABSTRACT with speech impairments are training programmes by speech therapists at home or at hospitals or at a combi- Human speech becomes impaired i.e., unintelligible nation of these, sign language like Makaton and elec- due to a variety of reasons that can be either neuro- tronic aids like text-to-speech conversion unit. logical or anatomical. The objective of the research was to improve the intelligibility and audibility of the 1.1. General Properties of Speech impaired speech that resulted from a disabled human Though non-stationary the speech signal can be consid- speech mechanism with impairment in the acoustic ered as stationary over