  Stuttering is a speech disorder which impacts the personal and professional
lives of millions of people worldwide. To save themselves from stigma and
discrimination, people who stutter (PWS) may adopt different strategies to
conceal their stuttering. One of the common strategies is word substitution
where an individual avoids saying a word they might stutter on and use an
alternative instead. This process itself can cause stress and add more burden.
In this work, we present Fluent, an AI augmented writing tool which assists PWS
in writing scripts which they can speak more fluently. Fluent embodies a novel
active learning based method of identifying words an individual might struggle
pronouncing. Such words are highlighted in the interface. On hovering over any
such word, Fluent presents a set of alternative words which have similar
meaning but are easier to speak. The user is free to accept or ignore these
suggestions. Based on such user interaction (feedback), Fluent continuously
evolves its classifier to better suit the personalized needs of each user. We
evaluated our tool by measuring its ability to identify difficult words for 10
simulated users. We found that our tool can identify difficult words with a
mean accuracy of over 80% in under 20 interactions and it keeps improving with
more feedback. Our tool can be beneficial for certain important life situations
like giving a talk, presentation, etc. The source code for this tool has been
made publicly accessible at github.com/bhavyaghai/Fluent.
