Relation Between Nonverbal Oral Movements and Speech Disorders in Pure Word Dumbness. training in nonverbal oral movements and speech.

A review of standardized tests of nonverbal oral and speech motor performance in children.

PURPOSE To review the content and psychometric characteristics of 6 published tests currently available to aid in the study, diagnosis, and treatment of motor speech disorders in children. METHOD We compared the content of the 6 tests and critically evaluated the degree to which important psychometric characteristics support the tests' use for their defined purposes. RESULTS The tests varie...

Automatic Recognition of Nonverbal Speech

Speech Interface Exploiting Nonverbal Information

This paper introduces our research on speech interfaces using nonverbal information and examines new possibilities in speech interfaces. Although speech information consists of verbal and nonverbal information, most speech-recognition research has made use of only verbal information. From among nonverbal information, we have focused on hesitation (filled pause) and prosody (voice pitch) to crea...

Nonspeech Oral Movements and Oral Motor Disorders: A Narrative Review.

PURPOSE Speech and other oral functions such as swallowing have been compared and contrasted with oral behaviors variously labeled quasispeech, paraspeech, speechlike, and nonspeech, all of which overlap to some degree in neural control, muscles deployed, and movements performed. Efforts to understand the relationships among these behaviors are hindered by the lack of explicit and widely accept...

Nonverbal Communication in Spontaneous Speech Recognition

Verbal communication is the most obvious instrument used to express our thoughts and ideas, considering only this part of speech without regarding its nonverbal part, may lead to overlooking important information of utterance or even misunderstanding it. The development of an automatic system for recognition of facial expressions is a rather difficult task. Such a system must perform automatica...