ABCD: A Simulation Method for Accelerating Conversational Agents With Applications in Aphasia Therapy

ABCD represents a foundational computational approach to accelerate the innovation and preclinical testing of conversational AI partners for speech-language therapy. ABCD circumvents the barriers of collecting diverse errorful speech samples for clinical conversational AI fine-tuning. As AI systems-including large language models and speech technologies-advance rapidly, ABCD will scale accordingly, further enhancing its potential for clinical integration.