Differential diagnosis of apraxia of speech in children and adults: A scoping review

KM Allison, C Cordella, J Iuzzini-Seigel… - Journal of Speech …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose Despite having distinct etiologies, acquired apraxia of speech (AOS) and childhood
apraxia of speech (CAS) share the same central diagnostic challenge (ie, isolating markers …

Respiratory Aerosol Emissions from Vocalization: Age and Sex Differences Are Explained by Volume and Exhaled CO2

N Good, KM Fedak, D Goble, A Keisling… - … & Technology Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Evidence suggests that airborne transmission of infectious respiratory aerosol plays an
important role for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This work characterized respiratory aerosol …

[HTML][HTML] Speech assessment tool methods for speech impaired children: a systematic literature review on the state-of-The-art in Speech impairment analysis

GP Usha, JSR Alex - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2023 - Springer
Speech is a powerful, natural mode of communication that facilitates effective interactions in
human societies. However, when fluency or flow of speech is affected or interrupted, it leads …

[HTML][HTML] Automatic depression detection using smartphone-based text-dependent speech signals: deep convolutional neural network approach

AY Kim, EH Jang, SH Lee, KY Choi, JG Park… - Journal of medical …, 2023 - jmir.org
Background Automatic diagnosis of depression based on speech can complement mental
health treatment methods in the future. Previous studies have reported that acoustic …

Measurements and simulations of aerosol released while singing and playing wind instruments

T Stockman, S Zhu, A Kumar, L Wang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Outbreaks from choir performances, such as the Skagit Valley Choir, showed that singing
brings potential risk of COVID-19 infection. There is less known about the risks of airborne …

The effect of SPEAK OUT! and The LOUD Crowd on dysarthria due to Parkinson's disease

A Behrman, J Cody, S Elandary, P Flom… - American Journal of …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose SPEAK OUT! and The LOUD Crowd is a standardized speech therapy program of
12 individual treatments combined with ongoing weekly group sessions for individuals with …

[HTML][HTML] Classification of huntington disease using acoustic and lexical features

M Perez, W Jin, D Le, N Carlozzi, P Dayalu… - Interspeech, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Speech is a critical biomarker for Huntington Disease (HD), with changes in speech
increasing in severity as the disease progresses. Speech analyses are currently conducted …

Detection of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) via acoustic analysis

R Norel, M Pietrowicz, C Agurto, S Rishoni, G Cecchi - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
ABSTRACT ALS is a fatal neurodegenerative disease with no cure. Experts typically
measure disease progression via the ALSFRS-R score, which includes measurements of …

Assessment of speech and fine motor coordination in children with autism spectrum disorder

T Talkar, JR Williamson, DJ Hannon, HM Rao… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder characterized by difficulty in
communication, which includes a high incidence of speech production errors. We …

A cross-language study of acoustic predictors of speech intelligibility in individuals with Parkinson's disease

Y Kim, Y Choi - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017 - ASHA
Purpose The present study aimed to compare acoustic models of speech intelligibility in
individuals with the same disease (Parkinson's disease [PD]) and presumably similar …