When people focus attention or carry out a demanding task, their breathing changes. But
which parameters of respiration vary exactly and can respiration reliably be used as an …

Previous research has shown that a region of the midbrain, the periaqueductal gray matter
(PAG), is critical for vocalization. In this review, we describe the results of previous …

Respiratory movements were recorded from 10 dyads (20 subjects) during quiet breathing,
reading aloud, spontaneous monologue, scripted dialog, and spontaneous conversation …

Lung volumes, speech intensity, the linguistic location of inspirations, and the variability of
each, were studied during spontaneous speech in 6 healthy young women over 7 to 10 …

Objective This study examines reading aloud in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS) and those with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in order to determine whether …

The effect of speech rate reduction on speech and pause characteristics during a reading
task was examined for speakers with Parkinson's disease (PD) and a group of control …

While recent text to speech (TTS) models perform very well in synthesizing reading-style (eg,
audiobook) speech, it is still challenging to synthesize spontaneous-style speech (eg …

This study investigates prosodic planning in a reading task in German. We analyse how the
utterance length and syntactic complexity of an upcoming sentence affect two acoustic …

A possible function of laryngeal air sacs in apes and gibbons was investigated by examining
the relationships between air sac distribution, call rate, call duration and body weight in a …

This book explores the nature of cognitive representations and processes in speech motor
control, based primarily on evidence from speech timing. It engages with the key question of …