Purpose: Clinical practice in audiology and speech-language pathology in the 21st century
could greatly benefit from incorporating acoustic analyses because they can enhance and …

Acoustic analysis is attractive for the study of speech for several reasons, but one of the most
important is that the acoustic signal bridges the acts of speech production and speech …

The advent of widely available, free, and user-friendly speech analysis software in the late
1990s has made it possible to perform acoustic analyses in clinical and educational settings …

Purpose: The human voice changes with the progression of neurological disease and the
onset of diseases that affect articulators, often decreasing the effectiveness of …

The validity of acoustic assessments in clinical applications remains unproven.
Measurement reliability is still limited and might be greatly improved with relatively simple …

Background: According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth
Edition, diagnosis of speech sound disorder (SSD) requires a determination that it is not the …

Speech audiometry has long been a standard part of the audiometric diagnostic test battery
across the United States. However, for speech audiometry to be meaningful with regard to …

Featured Application This article discusses the current state of the art and knowledge gaps
in clinical acoustic analysis of voice quality and proposes future directions. Abstract …

Scott-Brown's Otolaryngology is used the world over as the definitive reference for trainee
ENT surgeons, audiologists and trainee head and neck surgeons, as well as specialists who …

Speech is the auditory stimulus through which we communicate. The recognition of speech
is therefore of great interest to all of us in the fields of speech and hearing. Speech …