Undergraduate of Speech and Language Pathology study the basics mechanism human communication, pathology faced by humans in Speech, Swallowing. Objective: To measure quality education undergraduate students speech language Methods: The was observational cross-sectional nature, with data collected using a purposive sampling technique. Students from both public private sectors various institutes ...

ABSTRACT: Principles of evidence-based practice (EBP) have been gradually infused into the undergraduate and graduate curriculum in speech-language pathology. However, the multiple steps involved in the EBP process require substantial background in research methods and ample exposure to a variety of communication disorders and clinical practice procedures. This article will describe a case-base...

In the present feasibility study, e-supervision was used to provide university liaison supervision to speech-language pathology (SLP) graduate students enrolled in student teaching practica. Utilizing a mixed methodology approach, interview and survey data were compared in order to identify similarities and differences between in-person and e-supervision, and guide future practice. Results show...

The objective of this study was to investigate stakeholders' views on the feasibility and acceptability of a pilot speech pathology teletherapy program for children attending schools in rural New South Wales, Australia. Nine children received speech pathology sessions delivered via Adobe Connect® web-conferencing software. During semi-structured interviews, school principals (n = 3), therapy fa...

PURPOSE To explore the application of the Activities and Participation component of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health - Children and Youth (ICF-CY, World Health Organization, 2007) as a framework for investigating the perceived impact of speech impairment in childhood. METHOD A 32-item questionnaire based on six ICF-CY domains was distributed to (a) a nati...

The success of nonlinear noise reduction applied to a single channel recording of human voice is measured in terms of the recognition rate of a commercial speech recognition program in comparison to the optimal linear filter. The overall performance of the nonlinear method is shown to be superior. We hence demonstrate that an algorithm that has its roots in the theory of nonlinear deterministic...

The present study investigated a bandwidth extension method to enhance telephone speech understanding for cochlear implant (CI) users. The acoustic information above telephone speech transmission range (i.e., 3400 Hz) was estimated based on trained models describing the relation between narrow-band and wide-band speech. The effect of the bandwidth extension method was evaluated with IEEE senten...

BACKGROUND Chronic cough that persists despite medical treatment may respond to speech pathology intervention, but the efficacy of such treatment has not been investigated in prospective randomised trials. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of a speech pathology intervention programme for chronic cough. METHODS A single blind, randomised, placebo controlled trial was conducte...

Cochlear-implant users perform far below normal-hearing subjects in background noise. Speech recognition with varying numbers of competing female, male, and child talkers was evaluated in normal-hearing subjects, cochlear-implant users, and normal-hearing subjects utilizing an eight-channel sine-carrier cochlear-implant simulation. Target sentences were spoken by a male. Normal-hearing subjects...

1 はじめに 我々は,ポッドキャストを音声認識によって 自動的にテキスト化することで,それらをユー ザが全文検索できるだけではなく,詳細な閲覧, 編集も可能なソーシャルアノテーションシステ ム「PodCastle1)2)3)」の開発,運営を行っている. ポッドキャストは実環境の多様な音声データであ り,従来の音声認識技術では高い認識率を達成す ることは難しい.そこで PodCastleでは,多数 のユーザに認識誤りを訂正 (アノテーション)す る協力をしてもらうことで,音声認識率をシス テムの運用中に向上させる枠組みを採用してい る.こうすることで,検索サービスとしての質を 向上させるだけでなく,音声認識技術の底上げを はかることも狙っている. 本研究では,上記の枠組みの一環として,PodCastleを通じて得られる集合知,すなわちユー ザによる音声認識誤りの訂正結果を活用した音 響...