Automated assessment of language proficiency of a test taker’s spoken response regarding its content, vocabulary, grammar and context depends largely upon how well the input speech can be recognized. While state-of-the-art, deep neural net based acoustic models have significantly improved the recognition performance of native speaker’s speech, good recognition is still challenging when the inpu...

CONTEXT The speech rate is one of the parameters considered when investigating speech fluency and is an important variable in the assessment of individuals with communication complaints. OBJECTIVE To correlate the stuttering severity index with one of the indices used for assessing fluency/speech rate. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Fluency and Fluency Disorders Investigation Labor...

The instrumental evaluation of speech movements is an important adjunct to the assessment and understanding of speech motor disorders. AIl the interface between the nervous system and aerodynamic modifications in the vocal tract, movement variables such as displacement, velocity, acceleration, and their time histories, can provide direct information on speech motor disorders that can only be in...

BACKGROUND The Prosody-Voice Screening Profile PVSP. A final section provides detailed (PVSP) is a perceptual procedure to assess a prosody-voice reference data for children with speaker's prosody and voice in conversational normal speech-language development and speech. The PVSP provides summative and children with speech-language disorders of per-utterance data on the appropriateness of known...

<p>In this paper, the English speaking proficiency level of non-native speakers<br />was automatically estimated as high, medium, or low performance. For purpose, speech 142 speakers was recorded and electroencephalography (EEG) signals 58 them were while in English. Two systems proposed for estimating speaker; one used 72 audio features, extracted from signals, other 112 features E...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether privately practising speech-language therapists in South Africa are fulfilling their role of identification, assessment and intervention for adolescents with written-language and reading difficulties. Further needs concerning training with regard to this population group were also determined. METHOD A survey study was conducted, using a self-administered quest...