An introduction to machine learning for speech-language pathologists: concepts, terminology, and emerging applications

C Cordella, MJ Marte, H Liu, S Kiran - Perspectives of the ASHA …, 2024 - pubs.asha.org
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to orient both clinicians and researchers to machine
learning (ML) approaches as applied to the field of speech-language pathology. We first …

[HTML][HTML] Conducting high-quality and reliable acoustic analysis: A tutorial focused on training research assistants

E Heller Murray - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Open science practices have led to an increase in available speech datasets for researchers
interested in acoustic analysis. Accurate evaluation of these databases frequently requires …

Artificial Intelligence–Assisted Speech Therapy for/ɹ: A Single-Case Experimental Study

NR Benway, JL Preston - American journal of speech-language …, 2024 - pubs.asha.org
Purpose: This feasibility trial describes changes in rhotic production in residual speech
sound disorder following ten 40-min sessions including artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted …

Classifying Rhoticity of/r/in Speech Sound Disorder using Age-and-Sex Normalized Formants

NR Benway, JL Preston, A Salekin, Y **ao… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Mispronunciation detection tools could increase treatment access for speech sound
disorders impacting, eg,/r/. We show age-and-sex normalized formant estimation …

Prospective validation of motor-based intervention with automated mispronunciation detection of rhotics in residual speech sound disorders

NR Benway, JL Preston - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.19090, 2023 - arxiv.org
Because lab accuracy of clinical speech technology systems may be overoptimistic, clinical
validation is vital to demonstrate system reproducibility-in this case, the ability of the …

Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion Features for Mispronunciation Detection of/r/in Child Speech Sound Disorders

NR Benway, YM Siriwardena, JL Preston… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Acoustic-to-articulatory speech inversion could enhance automated clinical
mispronunciation detection to provide detailed articulatory feedback unattainable by formant …

Evaluating acoustic representations and normalization for rhoticity classification in children with speech sound disorders

NR Benway, JL Preston, A Salekin, E Hitchcock… - JASA express …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The effects of different acoustic representations and normalizations were compared for
classifiers predicting perception of children's rhotic versus derhotic/ò/. Formant and Mel …

CRoP: Context-wise Robust Static Human-Sensing Personalization

S Kaur, A Gump, J **n, Y **ao, H Sharma… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The advancement in deep learning and internet-of-things have led to diverse human
sensing applications. However, distinct patterns in human sensing, influenced by various …

Augmenting Clinical Insights with Computing: How TalkBank Has Impacted Assessment and Treatment of Speech and Language Disorders.

NB Ratner - Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024 - ERIC
Our purpose is to highlight the contributions of TalkBank initiatives to improved
understanding of clinical impairments in adult and child speakers and examine remaining …

The JIBO Kids Corpus: A speech dataset of child-robot interactions in a classroom environment

NB Shankar, A Afshan, A Johnson, A Mahapatra… - JASA Express …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
balaji1312@ ucla. edu; amberafshan@ ucla. edu; ajohnson49@ ucla. edu; aurosweta99@
ucla. edu; alemartin@ ucla. edu; michaelni12@ ucla. edu; haewon@ mit. edu; mquint30 …