The release of WaveNet and Tacotron has forever transformed the speech synthesis
landscape. Thanks to these game-changing innovations, the quality of synthetic speech has …

Introduction Evidence suggests that over one-third of young children with developmental
language disorder (DLD) or speech sound disorder (SSD) have co-occurring features of …

Objectives To descriptively compare and contrast intervention techniques for preschool
children with features of developmental language disorder (outcome: oral vocabulary) and …

Background Perceptual measures such as speech intelligibility are known to be biased,
variant and subjective, to which an automatic approach has been seen as a more reliable …

Perceptual measures, such as intelligibility and speech disorder severity, are widely used in
the clinical assessment of speech disorders in patients treated for oral or oropharyngeal …

Background In head and neck cancer, many tools exist to measure speech impairment, but
few evaluate the impact on communication abilities. Some self‐administered questionnaires …

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, despite significant advances in recent years,
still have much room for improvement particularly in the recognition of disordered speech …

The construct of speech intelligibility (SI) is central to human communication. Estimates of SI
are routinely collected in assessments of speech and hearing as a proxy for degree of …

Integrating content and language instruction has gained popularity worldwide because it
allows students to improve their content knowledge while concurrently honing their …

Introduction Evidence suggests that over one-third of young children with developmental
language disorder (DLD) or speech sound disorder (SSD) have co-occurring features of …