An acoustic-phonetic study of several Swedish dysarthric speakers
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The speech of four speakers with varying degrees of dysarthria was studied, using spectrographic methods. Some interesting results were obtained, including incomplete realizations of consonants and consonant clusters and long voiceless portions of vowels.
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