Quantifying neurological disorders from voice is a rapidly growing field of research and
holds promise for unobtrusive and large-scale disorder monitoring. The data recording setup …

Background With respect to the clinical criteria for diagnosing childhood apraxia of speech
(commonly defined as a disorder of speech motor planning and/or programming), research …

Surveillance registers monitor the prevalence of cerebral palsy and the severity of resulting
impairments across time and place. The motor disorders of cerebral palsy can affect …

Purpose Speech acoustic characteristics of children with cerebral palsy (CP) were examined
with a multiple speech subsystems approach; speech intelligibility was evaluated using a …

Understanding the role of prosody in encoding linguistic meaning and in shaping phonetic
form requires the analysis of prosodically annotated speech drawn from a wide variety of …

Prosody, the rhythm and melody of speech, is an important component of effective
communication, and it is an area of difficulty for many populations who struggle with …

Purpose Although dysarthria affects the large majority of individuals with cerebral palsy (CP)
and can substantially complicate everyday communication, previous research has provided …

The Dysarthric Expressed Emotional Database (DEED) is a novel, parallel multimodal
(audio-visual) database of dysarthric and typical emotional speech in British English which …

Purpose This study examined the effects of Speech Intelligibility Treatment (SIT) on
intelligibility and naturalness of narrative speech produced by francophone children with …

Text-to-speech options on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices are
limited. Often, several individuals in a group setting use the same synthetic voice. This lack …