[HTML][HTML] Effects of face masks on acoustic analysis and speech perception: Implications for peri-pandemic protocols

M Magee, C Lewis, G Noffs, H Reece, J Chan… - The Journal of the …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Wearing face masks (alongside physical distancing) provides some protection against
infection from COVID-19. Face masks can also change how people communicate and …

Automated analysis of connected speech reveals early biomarkers of Parkinson's disease in patients with rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder

J Hlavnička, R Čmejla, T Tykalová, K Šonka… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
For generations, the evaluation of speech abnormalities in neurodegenerative disorders
such as Parkinson's disease (PD) has been limited to perceptual tests or user-controlled …

Vocal acoustic biomarkers of depression severity and treatment response

JC Mundt, AP Vogel, DE Feltner, WR Lenderking - Biological psychiatry, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Valid, reliable biomarkers of depression severity and treatment response
would provide new targets for clinical research. Noticeable differences in speech production …

Differential diagnosis of children with suspected childhood apraxia of speech

E Murray, P McCabe, R Heard, KJ Ballard - Journal of Speech, Language …, 2015 - ASHA
Purpose The gold standard for diagnosing childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is expert
judgment of perceptual features. The aim of this study was to identify a set of objective …

Smartphone allows capture of speech abnormalities associated with high risk of develo** Parkinson's disease

J Rusz, J Hlavnička, T Tykalová… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although smartphone technology provides new opportunities for the recording of speech
samples in everyday life, its ability to capture prodromal speech impairment in persons with …

Automatic evaluation of articulatory disorders in Parkinson's disease

M Novotný, J Rusz, R Čmejla… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although articulatory deficits represent an important manifestation of dysarthria in
Parkinson's disease (PD), the most widely used methods currently available for the …

Consensus paper: neurophysiological assessments of ataxias in daily practice

W Ilg, M Branscheidt, A Butala, P Celnik, L De Paola… - The Cerebellum, 2018 - Springer
The purpose of this consensus paper is to review electrophysiological abnormalities and to
provide a guideline of neurophysiological assessments in cerebellar ataxias. All authors …

Profiling speech and pausing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)

Y Yunusova, NL Graham, S Shellikeri, K Phuong… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
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 diagnostic utility of patient-report and speech-language pathologists' ratings for detecting the early onset of bulbar symptoms due to ALS

KM Allison, Y Yunusova, TF Campbell… - … Lateral Sclerosis and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: This study aimed to determine the diagnostic utility of clinician speech ratings and
patient self-report for detecting early bulbar changes associated with amyotrophic lateral …

A predictive model for diagnosing stroke-related apraxia of speech

KJ Ballard, L Azizi, JR Duffy, MR McNeil, M Halaki… - Neuropsychologia, 2016 - Elsevier
Diagnosis of the speech motor planning/programming disorder, apraxia of speech (AOS),
has proven challenging, largely due to its common co-occurrence with the language-based …