Speech disorder refers to the situation that affects the ability of a person to produce sounds
that generates words. People of any age can be affected by speech disorders. Speech …

One in eight people world wide live with some kind of mental disorder which results in
significant disturbances in their thinking and emotional behaviour. While effective prevention …

This special issue is expected to contribute to make this field more open and visible to
speech and signal processing experts, presenting the state of the art and the potentiality of …

It is widely accepted that information derived from analyzing speech (the acoustic signal)
and language production (words and sentences) serves as a useful window into the health …

Presents a summary of assessment and evaluation techniques for disordered speech, with
both a clinical and a research focus. This unique resource reviews research evidence …

This book draws on the recent remarkable advances in speech and language processing:
advances that have moved speech technology beyond basic applications such as medical …

Speech recognition (SR) is the process whereby a microprocessor-based system, typically a
computer with sound processing hardware and speech recognition software, responds in …

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify trends in how artificial intelligence is being
used in the field of speech and language disorders, especially by focusing on interventions …

Research to date has made it clear that many speech disorders will not be fully remediated
without intensive and long-term intervention. At the same time, practitioners of speech …

The production of speech requires the integration of diverse information sources in order to
generate the intricate pattern of muscle activations that result in fluent speech. Accordingly, a …