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ArticleAmerican journal of speech-language pathology2024

The Effects of Interactive Context on Acoustic Characteristics of Speech in People With Dysarthria: A Preliminary Study.

Elizabeth Krajewski, Jimin Lee, Navin Viswanathan, Anne Olmstead, Zachary Simmons

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Article in American journal of speech-language pathology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Elizabeth KrajewskiDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park.ORCID 0009-0003-2474-7547
Jimin LeeDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
Navin ViswanathanDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
Anne OlmsteadDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park.ORCID 0000-0003-3686-5922
Zachary SimmonsDepartments of Neurology and Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey.

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Evaluating Verbal Communication in Structured Interactions: Theoretical and Clinical ImplicationsR01DC021714 · NIDCD · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI Ji Min Lee, Anne Olmstead · 2024 to 2026
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NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC021714
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Abstract

purposeThe current study compared temporal and spectral acoustic contrast between vowel segments produced by speakers with dysarthria across three speech tasks-interactive, solo habitual, and solo clear.

methodNine speakers with dysarthria secondary to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis participated in the study. Each speaker was paired with a typical interlocutor over videoconferencing software. The speakers produced the vowels /i, ɪ, ɛ, æ/ in /h/-vowel-/d/ words. For the solo tasks, speakers read the stimuli aloud in both their habitual and clear speaking styles. For the interactive task, speakers produced a target stimulus for their interlocutor to select among the four possibilities. We measured the duration difference between long and short vowels, as well as the F1/F2 Euclidean distance between adjacent vowels, and also determined how well the vowels could be classified based on their acoustic characteristics.

resultsTemporal contrast between long and short vowels was higher in the interactive task than in both solo tasks. Spectral distance between adjacent vowel pairs was also higher for some pairs in the interactive task than the habitual speech task. Finally, vowel classification accuracy was highest in the interactive task.

conclusionsOverall, we found evidence that individuals with dysarthria produced vowels with greater acoustic contrast in structured interactions than they did in solo tasks. Furthermore, the speech adjustments they made to the vowel segments differed from those observed in solo speech.

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Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisDysarthriaPhoneticsSpeech AcousticsSpeech Production MeasurementAcousticsAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPreliminary DataSound SpectrographySpeech IntelligibilityTime Factors

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