Welfare

Welfare

Constantly pursuing the relation between speech and medicine and welfare

Speech is the basic form of communication among people. Animo is incessantly thinking of ways to use speech technology to help those with visual and auditory disabilities. We keep close partnerships with university hospitals and research institutes in our basic research and development activities. Precious knowledge and know-how acquired through our efforts in the medical and welfare areas eventually become the basis of all Animo products.

Product list

Aphasia rehabilitation

Hanatuzumi

Based on the global structuration theory, this software helps restoring impaired linguistic abilities through the simultaneous use of multiple senses such as audition, vision, and tactile sense. We support promoting effective rehabilitation in hospitals or at home with a clear narration, beautiful pictures, and pleasant excercises.
Supervision: Prof. K. Yonemoto, Prof. Emeritus at the Jikei University School of Medicine

Aphasia rehabilitation

Training CD for light and medium severeness

This rehabilitation training software is for aphasia patients of medium and light levels of severeness. It contains 520 training phrases and can be played back using a conventional CD player. In combination with Hanatuzumi III, it is possible to conduct training on discontinuous and low-frequency listening, resulting in more effective rehabilitation.
Supervision: the Jikei University School of Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Production: Japan Institute for Speech Therapy (JIST)

Aphasia rehabilitation

Tona-chan Cards

These illustration cards help conduct the ""tonaeuta"" (chanting verses) training based on the global structuration theory. Using 20 types of emotive expressions such as ""no!"", ""tastes good!"", ""great!"", etc., it enables a rich spoken language training, closer to the real world.
Supervision: the Jikei University School of Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Production: Japan Institute for Speech Therapy (JIST)

Speech dialog support

Speech Dialog Aid

We enable communication by voice using speech synthesis technology for those who lost their ability to speak due to larynx cancer, head and neck cancer, muscular dystrophy, etc. In addition, we offer the Individual Speech Synthesis feature that enables the patient to use his or her own voice for speech synthesis.
Joint development: Kimitaka Kaga, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo, School of Medicine

Acoustics/utterance and language acquisition test

SUGI SpeechAnalyzer for medical care

This tool enables visualization of speech waveform, pitch, spectrum, etc. It is widely used in basic research on speech language, otorhynolaryngology, acoustic analysis for dentistry, and analysis of utterances/language acquisition in the treatment of language and auditory problems.
Supervision: Miyoko Sugito, Director of the Institute for Speech Communication Research

Laryngeal disease screening

Voice health check

This system aims at achieving early detection of vocal fold nodules vocal fold polyps, and laryngeal cancer through the analysis of speech data. We perform automatic analysis through the Internet of speech data recorded from a PC (screening test). Thus, doctors may focus their attention on more suspicious cases, saving the patient's time and money.

Joint development: Prof. Hiroyuki Fukuda, Director of Tokyo Voice Center, International University of Health and Welfare

Hand-held vibration timer unit for walking rehabilitation

Pocket rhythm

This hand-held vibration timer unit helps patients with dysphemia and Parkinson's disease acquire a sense of timing and rhythm in their walking rehabilitation.

Supervision: Prof. Satoshi Miyano, the Jikei University School of Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Orientation: Prof. Kyoko Dozeki, former Principal Researcher in Speech and Auditory Research at the Jikei University School of Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine

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