Singing has been used in language rehabilitation for decades, yet controversy remains over
its effectiveness and mechanisms of action. Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) is the most …

Purpose The perceptual consequences of rate reduction, increased vocal intensity, and
clear speech were studied in speakers with multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's disease …

Background The effectiveness of two treatment approaches (phonological therapy and
articulation therapy) for treatment of 14 children, aged 4; 0–6; 7 years, with phonologically …

This study investigated the acoustic basis of within-speaker, across-utterance variation in
sentence intelligibility for 12 speakers with dysarthria secondary to Parkinson's disease …

Purpose To determine how increased vocal loudness and reduced speech rate affect
listeners' cognitive–perceptual processing of hypokinetic dysarthric speech associated with …

Objective: We examined whether perceived voice quality is altered in a group of children
with cerebral palsy (CP) following an intervention focusing on respiration and phonation …

In rhythmic speech cueing (RSC), speech rate control via auditory rhythm is used to improve
temporal characteristics such as fluency, articulatory rate, pause time, and intelligibility of …

In this paper we propose a new algorithm to detect vowels in a speech utterance and infer
the rate at which speech was produced. To achieve this we determine a smooth trajectory …

The purposes of this study were to investigate the characteristics of speech rate and pause
in patients with flaccid dysarthria. For this purpose, 15 patients with flaccid dysarthria and 15 …

Objective: Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder that is characterized by weak, slow, and
imprecise movements. Previous research has shown that behavioral treatment can improve …