Oral and laryngeal diadochokinesis across the life span: A sco** review of methods, reference data, and clinical applications

RD Kent, Y Kim, L Chen - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: The aim of this study was to conduct a sco** review of research on oral and
laryngeal diadochokinesis (DDK) in children and adults, either typically …

Multimodal speech biomarkers for remote monitoring of ALS disease progression

M Neumann, H Kothare, V Ramanarayanan - Computers in Biology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that
severely impacts affected persons' speech and motor functions, yet early detection and …

An automatic measure for speech intelligibility in dysarthrias—validation across multiple languages and neurological disorders

J Tröger, F Dörr, L Schwed, N Linz, A König… - Frontiers in Digital …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Dysarthria, a motor speech disorder caused by muscle weakness or paralysis,
severely impacts speech intelligibility and quality of life. The condition is prevalent in motor …

Investigating the utility of multimodal conversational technology and audiovisual analytic measures for the assessment and monitoring of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …

M Neumann, O Roesler, J Liscombe, H Kothare… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We propose a cloud-based multimodal dialog platform for the remote assessment and
monitoring of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) at scale. This paper presents our vision …

Speech acoustic indices for differential diagnosis between Parkinson's disease, multiple system atrophy and progressive supranuclear palsy

K Daoudi, B Das, T Tykalova, J Klempir… - npj Parkinson's …, 2022 - nature.com
While speech disorder represents an early and prominent clinical feature of atypical
parkinsonian syndromes such as multiple system atrophy (MSA) and progressive …

Validating automatic diadochokinesis analysis methods across dysarthria severity and syllable task in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

C Tanchip, DL Guarin, S McKinlay, C Barnett… - Journal of Speech …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: Oral diadochokinesis (DDK) is a standard dysarthria assessment task. To extract
automatic and semi-automatic DDK measurements, numerous DDK analysis algorithms …

Speech and language abnormalities in myotonic dystrophy: An overview

S Hanoun, Y Sun, F Ebrahimi, M Ghasemi - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is an autosomal dominant neuromuscular and multisystem disease
that is divided into two types, DM1 and DM2, according to mutations in DMPK and CNBP …

Is there a continuum between speech and other oromotor tasks? evidence from motor speech disorders

M Lancheros, M Pernon, M Laganaro - Aphasiology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Oral diadochokinetic (DDK) tasks are widely used in the assessment of patients
with motor speech disorders (MSD). They require the repetition of homogeneous and of …

Wav2DDK: Analytical and Clinical Validation of an Automated Diadochokinetic Rate Estimation Algorithm on Remotely Collected Speech

P Kadambi, GM Stegmann, J Liss, V Berisha… - Journal of Speech …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: Oral diadochokinesis is a useful task in assessment of speech motor function in the
context of neurological disease. Remote collection of speech tasks provides a convenient …

On the primary influences of age on articulation and phonation in maximum performance tasks

F Karlsson, L Hartelius - Languages, 2021 - mdpi.com
Maximum performance tasks have been identified as possible domains where incipient
signs of neurological disease may be detected in simple speech and voice samples …