Speech is an integral part of communication. Speech disorder is a problem with fluency, voice, and or how a person produces a speech sound. The main focus of this study is to identify the difference between normal and disordered speech. The proposed work classifies the normal and abnormal speech. The experimental investigation elucidated MFCC and DTW with the accuracy rate of 88 % and 75% respe...

When individuals lose the ability to produce their own speech, due to degenerative diseases such as motor neurone 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 v...

When individuals lose the ability to produce their own speech, due to degenerative diseases such as motor neurone 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 v...

introduction: there is a long-term interest in the effects of undesirable emotions to eating behaviors, due to the strain that it places on a person which can lead to loses his/her health. the present study examined the degree of disordered eating behaviors related to anxiety and alexithymia among high schools girls.materials and methods: this cross-sectional study on 344 girl students of tehra...

Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder characterized by weakness, paralysis, or poor coordination of the muscles responsible for speech. Although automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have been developed for disordered speech, factors such as low intelligibility and limited vocabulary decrease speech recognition accuracy. In this paper, we introduce a technique that can increase recognition...

Study objectives: Assess the prevalence of sleep disordered breathing in adenotosillar diseases and identify the risk factors of sleep disordered breathing in children. Design: A retrospective random sample who had adenotonsillar diseases , were assessed with validated questionnaire which helped in understanding the impact of sleep disordered breathing which included history of physical sufferi...

Speech-language pathologists serving multicultural populations may encounter unfamiliar beliefs about speech disorders among the members of different cultures. This study used a questionnaire to look at attitudes toward four disorders (cleft palate, dysfluency, hearing impairment, and misarticulations) among 166 university students representing English-speaking North American culture and severa...