Prompting as Physical Therapy: Using Voice-to-AI Interfaces for Speech Rehabilitation

The words are in your head. You know the sentence. "I would like a cup of coffee." But when you open your mouth, the sounds come out wrong. Slurred. Stuttered. Fragmented. A stroke has damaged the neural pathways between thought and speech. The traditional therapy is exhausting: a human clinician watching you fail, correcting you gently, asking you to try again. It is necessary. It is also humiliating. Now imagine a different kind of therapist. One that never gets tired, never judges, and will listen to you say "I would like a cup of coffee" one hundred times in a row without sighing.