Show HN: I built a speech accessibility app

1 yu3zhou4 0 6/11/2025, 5:24:01 PM beunderstoodapp.com ↗
For the last year I was researching and developing an ML model that understands speech with disorders, like speech of people after strokes or with dysarthria. I think it's a right time to launch early, so if you know a person who struggles with voice communication please let them know

App works in the browser and should work on any device

From a technical perspective, it's a PEFT (LoRA) fine-tuned version of distilled Whisper on all available data for this task, with some data augmentations, trained for about a day on a single RTX 5090

This is very early stage so things will be often broken and the model will be often updated, but if you are not afraid to experiment, I invite anyone with speech problems to try

I'm happy to answer all questions

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