Affricates have been observed to be problematic in phonological acquisition and disordered speech across languages, due to their relatively complex spatial and temporal articulatory patterns. Remediation of difficulties in the production of affricates requires understanding of how these sounds are typically produced. This study presents the first systematic articulatory and acoustic investigati...

The paper describes the problem of cepstral speech analysis in the process of automated voice disorder probability estimation. The author proposes to derive two of the most diagnostically significant voice features: quality of harmonic structure and degree of subharmonic from cepstrum of speech signal. Traditionally, these attributes are estimated auricularly or by spectrum (or spectrogram) obs...

Instrumental acoustic measurements of the human voice have enormous potential to objectively describe pathology and, thereby, assist clinical treatment decisions. Despite increasing application and accessibility technical knowledge equipment, recent research has highlighted a lack understanding physiologic, speech/language-, culture-related influencing factors. This article presents critical re...

BACKGROUND The primary purpose was to assess if VAS or Likert was relatively more suitable when assessing self-ratings of voice and speech in patients treated for laryngeal cancer. An additional purpose was to investigate whether the scales differed in measuring change after treatment. MATERIAL/METHODS Using both VAS and Likert, 71 patients answered three questions at baseline and 12 months a...

Conversational entrainment, a pervasive communication phenomenon in which dialogue partners adapt their behaviors to align more closely with one another, is considered essential for successful spoken interaction. While well-established in other disciplines, this phenomenon has received limited attention in the field of speech pathology and the study of communication breakdowns in clinical popul...

When individuals lose the ability to produce their own speech, due to degenerative diseases such as motor neuron disease (MND) or Parkinson’s, they lose not only a functional means of communication but also a display of their individual and group identity. In order to build personalized synthetic voices, attempts have been made to capture the voice before it is lost, using a process known as vo...

Speech of children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) is sometimes still disordered even after adequate surgical and nonsurgical therapies. Such speech shows complex articulation disorders, which are usually assessed perceptually, consuming time and manpower. Hence, there is a need for an easy to apply and reliable automatic method. To create a reference for an automatic system, speech data of 58 ...

conclusions abnormal eating attitude was notable among physical education students in tabriz, iran. it seems that some anthropometric indices such as bmi and central obesity indices were related to the increase of disordered eating attitude. background abnormal eating behavior, unhealthy weight control methods, and eating disordered symptoms have risen among college students. objectives the aim...

Most previous studies on acoustic assessment of disordered voice were focused on extracting perturbation features from isolated vowels produced with steady-state phonation. Natural speech, however, is considered to be more preferable in the aspects of flexibility, effectiveness and reliability for clinical practice. This paper presents an investigation on applying automatic speech recognition (...