Purpose Acoustic measurement of speech sounds requires first segmenting the speech
signal into relevant units (words, phones, etc.). Manual segmentation is cumbersome and …

Background: Publicly available speech corpora facilitate reproducible research by providing
open-access data for participants who have consented/assented to data sharing among …

Phonetic forced alignment can greatly expedite spoken language analysis by providing
automatictimealignmentsattheword-andphone-levels. Inthecaseoflow-resourcelanguages, it …

Objectives: Evaluation of hypernasality requires extensive perceptual training by clinicians
and extending this training on a large scale internationally is untenable; this compounds the …

Purpose: The/ɹ/productions of young children acquiring American English are highly
variable and often inaccurate, with [w] as the most common substitution error. One acoustic …

Hypernasality is a common characteristic symptom across many motor-speech disorders.
For voiced sounds, hypernasality introduces an additional resonance in the lower …

Speech disorders in children can affect their fluency and intelligibility. Delay in their
diagnosis and treatment increases the risk of social impairment and learning disabilities …

Automated goodness of pronunciation scores measure deviation from typical adult speech
by first phonetically segmenting speech using forced alignment and then computing …

Language variation and change are ubiquitous, and one aim of linguistic research is to
understand synchronic variation and how it contributes to change over time. This …

Asking a person to speak slowly is a common technique in speech therapy for people with
Parkinson's disease (PD). Slowed speaking rates are thought to bring about changes in …