When individuals lose the ability to produce their own speech, due to degenerative diseases such as motor neurone disease (MND) or Parkinson’s, they lose not only a functional means of communication but also a display of their individual and group identity. In order to build personalized synthetic voices, attempts have been made to capture the voice before it is lost, using a process known as v...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the medium-term outcome of cricothyroid approximation and subluxation (CTAS) with postoperative speech therapy for pitch elevation in male-to-female transsexuals. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study of male-to-female transsexuals who underwent pitch-raising surgery between November 1996 and August 2001. METHODS Twenty-one male-to-female transsexuals opted for surgical fe...

In psychotherapy, clients describe their problems in their own words, which are often accompanied by gestures. Interestingly, mismatches between speech and gesture as well as within words are observed, and they become resolved as the counseling proceeds. We report a case study demonstrating speech-gesture relationship changes in a therapeutic interaction. The case study consisted of a series of...

Non-invasive automatic screening for Alzheimer’s disease has the potential to improve diagnostic accuracy while lowering healthcare costs. Previous research shown that patterns in speech, language, gaze, and drawing can help detect early signs of cognitive decline. In this paper, we describe a highly multimodal system unobtrusively capturing data during real clinical interviews conducted as par...

SUMMARY Computer-based speech training systems (CBST) are used to provide feedback to subjects with problems in speech production such as phonation, articulation and intonation. The aims of CBST are to display visually one or more attributes of an utterance to assist the speech and language therapist in the assessment of the subject's production or to motivate the subject by providing feedback ...

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Parkinson's disease related speech and voice impairment have significant impact on quality of life measures. LSVT(®)LOUD voice and speech therapy (Lee Silverman Voice Therapy) has demonstrated scientific efficacy and clinical effectiveness, but musically based voice and speech therapy has been underexplored as a potentially useful method of rehabilitation. We undertook a pilot, open-label study...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether speech therapy can lead to better results for early cochlear implantation (CI) children. PATIENTS A cohort of thirty-four congenitally profoundly deaf children who underwent CI before the age of 18 months at the Sixth Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University from January 2005 to July 2008 were included. Nineteen children received speech therapy in reha...