Automated vocal analysis of naturalistic recordings from children with autism, language delay, and typical development

DK Oller, P Niyogi, S Gray… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
For generations the study of vocal development and its role in language has been
conducted laboriously, with human transcribers and analysts coding and taking …

What automated vocal analysis reveals about the vocal production and language learning environment of young children with autism

SF Warren, J Gilkerson, JA Richards, DK Oller… - Journal of autism and …, 2010 - Springer
The study compared the vocal production and language learning environments of 26 young
children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to 78 typically developing children using …

Automated analysis of child phonetic production using naturalistic recordings

D Xu, JA Richards, J Gilkerson - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2014 - ASHA
Purpose Conventional resource-intensive methods for child phonetic development studies
are often impractical for sampling and analyzing child vocalizations in sufficient quantity. The …

[PDF][PDF] Earlier identification of children with autism spectrum disorder: An automatic vocalisation-based approach

FB Pokorny, B Schuller, PB Marschik… - 2017 - opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder usually diagnosed in or
beyond toddlerhood. ASD is defined by repetitive and restricted behaviours, and deficits in …

Phonology and vocal behavior in toddlers with autism spectrum disorders

E Schoen, R Paul, K Chawarska - Autism Research, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study is to examine the phonological and other vocal productions of
children, 18–36 months, with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and to compare these …

Sounds of melody—Pitch patterns of speech in autism

M Sharda, TP Subhadra, S Sahay, C Nagaraja… - Neuroscience …, 2010 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to find a pattern in vocalizations of children with Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD). We compared the intonational features of 15 children with ASD …

Vocal atypicalities of preverbal autistic children

SJ Sheinkopf, P Mundy, DK Oller, M Steffens - Journal of autism and …, 2000 - Springer
This study was designed to evaluate the nature of early vocal behaviors in young children
with autism. Recent methodological and conceptual advances in the study of infant …

Beyond ba-ba and gu-gu: Challenges and strategies in coding infant vocalizations

S Nathani, DK Oller - Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & …, 2001 - Springer
Infant vocal behaviors are extremely complex. Consequently, coding these behaviors is
difficult and is typically associated with low reliability across observers. Various difficulties …

[PDF][PDF] Automatic Detection of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children Using Acoustic and Text Features from Brief Natural Conversations.

S Cho, M Liberman, N Ryant, M Cola, RT Schultz… - Interspeech, 2019 - ldc.upenn.edu
Abstract Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is increasingly prevalent [1], but long waitlists
hinder children's access to expedient diagnosis and treatment. To begin addressing this …

ALICE: An open-source tool for automatic measurement of phoneme, syllable, and word counts from child-centered daylong recordings

O Räsänen, S Seshadri, M Lavechin, A Cristia… - Behavior Research …, 2021 - Springer
Recordings captured by wearable microphones are a standard method for investigating
young children's language environments. A key measure to quantify from such data is the …