Challenge Description

Autistic brains adore patterns and music is a pattern. Help parents to compose music that helps in the promotion of the speech of their limited-speaking children.  

Challenge Resources

Autistic brains adore patterns that is why several autistic people adore music as well. There are certain hypothesis that Mozart was autistic since he indeed learn to speak when he was 4 or 5 years old. 

There are certain ways of composing music that promote speech production in autistic children, specially promoting 2 very concrete language operators:

Ecolalia: which consists about repeating what you heard. 

Intraverbal: which consists of answering questions.

 

Music pattern recognition

Natural Language Processing (Lyrics)

Automatic music composition

 

The partitures presented in the guiding book that is in the references. 

  • Developmental Speech Language Training through music for children in the autism spectrum. Hayoung A. Lim. ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01K054BC2

Generally speaking this is a straight forward challenge that unless you are recording someone voice, it doesn’t have so much implications. 

It is important to respect the rights of authors and avoid misusage through composing offensive songs. 

 

Graphical Explanation

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Data Product – Potential Market

You can create a business model that charge by composed song. A cloud service option. 

I don’t know yet any similar product, if I learn from them I will list them here. 

Music as a tool for learning new languages is really useful for children and adults. You might have a bigger market there, if you use these techniques for language education.