A Methodological Approach to Quantifying Silent Pauses, Speech Rate, and Articulation Rate across Distinct Narrative Tasks: Introducing the Connected Speech Analysis Protocol (CSAP) [PDF]
Brain SciencesThe examination of connected speech may serve as a valuable tool for exploring speech output in both healthy speakers and individuals with language disorders.
Georgia Angelopoulou +3 more
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Talk like me: Exploring the feedback speech rate regulation strategy of the voice user interface for elderly people [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Voice user interface (VUI) is widely used in developing intelligent products due to its low learning cost. However, most of such products do not consider the cognitive and language ability of elderly people, which leads to low interaction efficiency ...
Junfeng Wang, Shuyu Yang, Zhiyu Xu
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Effect of Speech Rate on Neural Tracking of Speech [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Speech comprehension requires effort in demanding listening situations. Selective attention may be required for focusing on a specific talker in a multi-talker environment, may enhance effort by requiring additional cognitive resources, and is known to ...
Jana Annina Müller +9 more
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Effects of speech periodicity and speech rate on auditory-motor coupling during speech comprehension [PDF]
Communications BiologyAccording to neural oscillatory accounts, periodicity at the syllabic scale enhances speech comprehension through theta brain rhythms. Natural speech, however, is not strictly periodic and stronger periodicity, such as under conditions of fast speech ...
Sojeong Kwon +4 more
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Vocal age disguise: The role of fundamental frequency and speech rate and its perceived effects [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 The relationship between vocal characteristics and perceived age is of interest in various contexts, as is the possibility to affect age perception through vocal manipulation.
Sara Skoog Waller, Mårten Eriksson
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Listening to yourself is special: Evidence from global speech rate tracking. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Listeners are known to use adjacent contextual speech rate in processing temporally ambiguous speech sounds. For instance, an ambiguous vowel between short /α/ and long /a:/ in Dutch sounds relatively long (i.e., as /a:/) embedded in a fast precursor ...
Merel Maslowski +2 more
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Effects of speech rate modifications on phonatory acoustic outcomes in Parkinson’s disease [PDF]
Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceSpeech rate reduction is a global speech therapy approach for speech deficits in Parkinson’s disease (PD) that has the potential to result in changes across multiple speech subsystems.
Thea Knowles +4 more
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Hızlı-Bozuk Konuşmanın Kuramsal Temelleri ve Tanımına Genel Bakış
Dil, Konuşma ve Yutma Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 Amaç: Hızlı-bozuk konuşma (HBK), uluslararası alan yazında olduğu gibi, ülkemizde de dil ve konuşma terapisi alanında en az çalışılan konulardan biri olarak bilinmektedir. Tanımında yaşanan güçlükler nedeniyle kimi zaman görmezden gelinebilmektedir.
Aslı Altınsoy
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 This article concerns sound aesthetic preferences for European foreign languages. We investigated the phonetic-acoustic dimension of the linguistic aesthetic pleasure to describe the “music” found in European languages.
Vita V. Kogan +2 more
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Investigation and Comparison of Speech Rate in Normal Versus Emotion Induction conditions in Depressed and Non-depressed People [PDF]
مجله علوم پزشکی صدرا, 2000 Introduction: Speech rate is one of the clarity and fluency aspects of speech. It can affect depressed patients’ clarity, fluency, and public communication due to impaired executive and cognitive functions.
Fahimeh Mohamadpour, Habib Hadianfard
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