Any parent wishes an appropriate development for their children. One of the parents’ great concerns is the children's speech development; they are worried if their children are late to speak. The children’s speech development is influenced by physical and environmental factors. The causes of physical factors are related to the problem but the role of environmental factors is more complex becaus...

This study aimed to determine the emotional factors and social skills that affect a child's speech delay. Speech delay is problem related of child compared stages his peers.This research used qualitative descriptive type through Single Subject Research (SSR) method. Qualitative method provides an overview interprets meaning data collected giving attention recording as many aspects situation pos...

Speech can lead to increased performance in computer-based problem solving. Studies of complex interaction styles — such as command-line or system-delayed interaction — have found that complex interaction styles can lead to savings in the number of actions users take to reach a solution for certain tasks compared with direct manipulation. Speech can be viewed a complex interaction style because...

For spoken language systems to effectively operate across multiple languages it is critical to rapidly apply the correct language-specific speech recognition models. Prior approaches consist of either, first identifying the language being spoken and selecting the appropriate languagespecific speech recognition engine; or alternatively, performing speech recognition in parallel and selecting the...

Background: individuals with Parkinson's disease present voice and speech alterations, especially regarding loudness and speech rate. Aim: to determine the immediate effect of modified auditory feedback: amplification, delay and masking in the voice and speech of individuals with Parkinson's disease, according to gender. Method: twenty-six subjects with Parkinson's disease (15 men and 11 women)...

A companion paper addresses the need for phenotype markers for speech-genetics studies and provides reference data for US English rhotics that can be used for phenotype research. The present paper uses these reference data to derive and test an acoustic marker to discriminate the residual / / distortions of adolescents with two speech disorder histories. One speech disorder history includes sig...