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A Large-Scale Comparison of Two Voice Synthesis Techniques on Intelligibility, Naturalness, Preferences, and Attitudes toward Voices Banked by Individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
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Jolene Hyppa-Martin; Jason Lilley; Mo Chen; Jaclyn Friese; Corinne Schmidt; H. Timothy Bunnell – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2024
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) commonly results in the inability to produce natural speech, making speech-generating devices (SGDs) important. Historically, synthetic voices generated by SGDs were neither unique, nor age- or dialect-appropriate, which depersonalized SGD use. Voices generated by SGDs can now be customized via voice banking and…
Descriptors: Intelligibility, Speech Impairments, Artificial Speech, Voice Disorders
Measuring Communicative Congruence and Communicative Dysphoria in a Sample of Individuals without Voice Disorders
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Welch, Brett; Helou, Leah B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study examines communicative congruence and communicative dysphoria in adults who deny having a voice disorder. Communicative congruence is the degree to which a person's communication is consistent with their sense of self/identity. Communicative dysphoria is the psychological entropy resulting from communicative incongruence. We…
Descriptors: Voice Disorders, Communication Disorders, Self Concept, Well Being
Vocal Fold Phase Asymmetries in Patients with Voice Disorders: A Study across Visualization Techniques
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Bonilha, Heather Shaw; Deliyski, Dimitar D.; Whiteside, Joanna Piasecki; Gerlach, Terri Treman – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2012
Purpose: To examine differences in vocal fold vibratory phase asymmetry judged from stroboscopy, high-speed videoendoscopy (HSV), and the HSV-derived playbacks of mucosal wave kymography, digital kymography, and a static medial digital kymography image of persons with hypofunctional and hyperfunctional voice disorders. Differences between the…
Descriptors: Voice Disorders, Patients, Measurement Techniques, Measurement Equipment
Developing the Communicative Participation Item Bank: Rasch Analysis Results from a Spasmodic Dysphonia Sample
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Baylor, Carolyn R.; Yorkston, Kathryn M.; Eadie, Tanya L.; Miller, Robert M.; Amtmann, Dagmar – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to conduct the initial psychometric analyses of the Communicative Participation Item Bank--a new self-report instrument designed to measure the extent to which communication disorders interfere with communicative participation. This item bank is intended for community-dwelling adults across a range of…
Descriptors: Test Items, Voice Disorders, Psychometrics, Communication Disorders
Preponderance of Lead Voice Onset Times in Stutterers under Varying Constraints.
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Viswanath, Nagalapura S.; Rosenfield, David B. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2000
A study investigated voice onset time in voiced stop consonants under varying constraints. Under variation of rate, lexical stress location and location of key words beginning with voiced stops, the three adult stutterers realized voiced stops by voicing before release, whereas controls realized voiced stops by voicing following the release.…
Descriptors: Adults, Articulation Impairments, Communication Disorders, Individual Characteristics
Work Integration Issues Go beyond the Nature of the Communication Disorder.
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Garcia, Linda J.; Laroche, Chantal; Barrette, Jacques – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2002
A study gathered perceptions from persons with communication disorders (CD) (n=78), 13 service providers, and 22 employers on barriers to work integration. Results show many barriers are common across types of CD, including noise, tasks requiring speed, having to speak to groups of persons, and attitudes of others. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Communication Disorders
National Strategic Research Plan, 1994-1995: Language and Language Impairments, Balance and Balance Disorders, Voice and Voice Disorders.
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National Inst. on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders, Bethesda, MD. – 1996
This report is the result of three expert panels (on language and language impairments, balance and balance disorders, and voice and voice disorders) which met in 1994 and 1995 and reported research accomplishments, federal program goals, and research opportunities to the National Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Advisory Board. For…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Clinical Diagnosis, Communication Disorders