  Patients with articulatory disorders often have difficulty in speaking. These
patients need several speech therapy sessions to enable them speak normally.
These therapy sessions are conducted by a specialized speech therapist. The
goal of speech therapy is to develop good speech habits as well as to teach how
to articulate sounds the right way. Speech therapy is critical for continuous
improvement to regain normal speech. Speech therapy sessions require a patient
to travel to a hospital or a speech therapy center for extended periods of time
regularly; this makes the process of speech therapy not only time consuming but
also very expensive. Additionally, there is a severe shortage of trained speech
therapists around the globe in general and in developing countries in
particular. In this paper, we propose a low cost mobile speech therapist, a
system that enables speech therapy using a mobile phone which eliminates the
need of the patient to frequently travel to a speech therapist in a far away
hospital. The proposed system, which is being built, enables both synchronous
and asynchronous interaction between the speech therapist and the patient
anytime anywhere
