Change in voice quality (VQ) is one of the first precursors of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Specifically, impacted phonation and articulation causes the patient to have a breathy, husky-semiwhisper and hoarse voice. A goal of this paper is to characterize a VQ spectrum – the composition of non-modal phonations – of voice in PD. The paper relates non-modal healthy phonations: breathy, creaky, tense...

The article analyzes the forms and types of speech: "monologic", "dialogical". specificity organization "speech forms" is investigated. Attention paid to architectonics proportional relationship various forms". focus on stories L. M. Tolstoy late period his work. main functions direct speech in these works are revealed: definition character traits hero, retinue, era which he belongs. We also ta...

Speech technology is potentially of enormous benefit to people with physical disabilities. Applications of speech technology to e-inclusion are reviewed and described in the areas of access, control, communication and rehabilitation/therapy, with particular reference to speech technology developments for people with disordered speech. To be successful, applications should effectively take into ...

Purpose Naturalistic speech samples should be routinely collected in the assessment of individuals with communication difficulties. However, even when these are collected, they often underutilized. We propose that analysis naturalistic can greatly enhance our understanding and evaluation functional impact primary progressive aphasia (PPA) on communication. First, we review current practices eva...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE There has been a growing interest in objective assessment of speech in dysphonic patients for the classification of the type and severity of voice pathologies using automatic speech recognition (ASR). The aim of this work was to study the accuracy of the conventional ASR system (with Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) based front end and hidden Markov model (HM...

Dysarthrias, part of the class of neurogenic speech disorders, provide several sources of evidence concerning the neural control of speech. Although the dysarthrias have been studied primarily from a clinical perspective directed to issues of assessment and management, they have much to tell us about how the brain regulates the act of speaking. This paper considers "ve major areas in which diso...

The aim of this acoustic study is to examine place of articulation during the production of voiced plosives by children with a cleft palate. The data is compared with those obtained from control children without speech disorders. Formant values of F2 and F3 are measured at burst release of the plosives. Analyses are carried out for 52 children, from 9 to 18 years old. Two groups were establishe...