Traditional in-person therapy may be difficult to access for individuals with aphasia due to
the shortage of speech-language pathologists and high treatment cost. Computerized …

Robust speech recognition is a key prerequisite for semantic feature extraction in automatic
aphasic speech analysis. However, standard one-size-fits-all automatic speech recognition …

Intelligibility is widely used to measure the severity of articulatory problems in pathological
speech. Recently, a number of automatic intelligibility assessment tools have been …

Background: Previous work indicates that single-word intelligibility tests developed for
dysarthria are sensitive to segmental production errors in aphasic individuals with and …

Aphasia is a common language disorder which can severely affect an individual's ability to
communicate with others. Aphasia rehabilitation requires intensive practice accompanied by …

Dysarthria is a motor speech impairment caused by muscle weakness. Individuals, with this
condition, are unable to control rapid movement of the velum leading to reduction in …

Pathological speech usually refers to the condition of speech distortion resulting from
atypicalities in voice and/or in the articulatory mechanisms owing to disease, illness or other …

Measuring the intelligibility of disordered speech is a common practice in both clinical and
research contexts. Over the years various methods have been proposed and studied …

Impaired speech intelligibility in motor speech disorders arising due to neurological
diseases negatively affects the communication ability and quality of life of patients. Reliable …

Automated intelligibility assessments can support speech and language therapists in
determining the type of dysarthria presented by their clients. Such assessments can also …