Predicting developmental language disorders using artificial intelligence and a speech data analysis tool

EA Beccaluva, F Catania, F Arosio… - Human–Computer …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) affects children's comprehension and
production of spoken language without any known biomedical condition. The importance of …

Reproducible speech research with the artificial intelligence–Ready PERCEPT corpora

NR Benway, JL Preston, E Hitchcock, Y Rose… - Journal of Speech …, 2023 - ASHA
Background: Publicly available speech corpora facilitate reproducible research by providing
open-access data for participants who have consented/assented to data sharing among …

[HTML][HTML] Conducting high-quality and reliable acoustic analysis: A tutorial focused on training research assistants

E Heller Murray - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Open science practices have led to an increase in available speech datasets for researchers
interested in acoustic analysis. Accurate evaluation of these databases frequently requires …

AI Enhancements for Linguistic E-Learning System

J Liu, S Li, C Ren, Y Lyu, T Xu, Z Wang, W Chen - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
E-learning systems have been considerably developed after the COVID-19 pandemic. In our
previous work, we developed a linguistic interactive E-learning system for phonetic …

Feature engineering and machine learning for computer-assisted screening of children with speech disorders

K Suthar, F Yousefi Zowj, M Speights Atkins… - PLOS Digital …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Auditory perceptual analysis (APA) is the main method for clinical assessment of speech-
language deficits, which are one of the most prevalent childhood disabilities. However …

[PDF][PDF] My vowels matter: Formant automation tools for diverse child speech

H Valentine, J MacAuslan, M Grigos… - Proceedings of …, 2023 - isca-archive.org
Tools to automate formant measurement in vowels have been developed recently, but they
have not been tested on pediatric speech samples. Critically, child speech includes unique …

Implementation of an automated grading tool for phonetic transcription training

M Speights Atkins, DJ Bailey… - Clinical Linguistics & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Clinical phonetic transcription is regarded as a highly specialised skill requiring hours of
practice for mastery. Although this skill is a critical part of students' clinical preparation to …

[PDF][PDF] PERCEPT-R: An Open-Access American English Child/Clinical Speech Corpus Specialized for the Audio Classification of/ɹ/.

N Benway, JL Preston, E Hitchcock, A Salekin… - …, 2022 - isca-archive.org
We present the PERCEPT-R corpus, a labeled corpus of child speakers of American English
with typical speech and residual speech sound disorders affecting rhotics. We demonstrate …

The JIBO Kids Corpus: A speech dataset of child-robot interactions in a classroom environment

NB Shankar, A Afshan, A Johnson, A Mahapatra… - JASA Express …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
balaji1312@ ucla. edu; amberafshan@ ucla. edu; ajohnson49@ ucla. edu; aurosweta99@
ucla. edu; alemartin@ ucla. edu; michaelni12@ ucla. edu; haewon@ mit. edu; mquint30 …

Speech disorders classification in phonetic exams with MFCC and DTW

J Liu, M Speights, D Bailey, S Li, H Zhou… - 2021 IEEE 7th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recognizing disordered speech is a challenge to Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
systems. This research focuses on classifying disordered speech vs. non-disordered speech …