Journal ArticleDOI
Toward Automated Articulation Rate Analysis via Connected Speech in Dysarthrias
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this paper , the authors evaluated the reliability of different approaches for estimating the articulation rates in connected speech of Parkinsonian patients with different stages of neurodegeneration compared to healthy controls.Abstract:
This study aimed to evaluate the reliability of different approaches for estimating the articulation rates in connected speech of Parkinsonian patients with different stages of neurodegeneration compared to healthy controls.Monologues and reading passages were obtained from 25 patients with idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD), 25 de novo patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), 20 patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA), and 20 healthy controls. The recordings were subsequently evaluated using eight syllable localization algorithms, and their performances were compared to a manual transcript used as a reference.The Google & Pyphen method, based on automatic speech recognition followed by hyphenation, outperformed the other approaches (automated vs. hand transcription: r > .87 for monologues and r > .91 for reading passages, p < .001) in precise feature estimates and resilience to dysarthric speech. The Praat script algorithm achieved sufficient robustness (automated vs. hand transcription: r > .65 for monologues and r > .78 for reading passages, p < .001). Compared to the control group, we detected a slow rate in patients with MSA and a tendency toward a slower rate in patients with iRBD, whereas the articulation rate was unchanged in patients with early untreated PD.The state-of-the-art speech recognition tool provided the most precise articulation rate estimates. If speech recognizer is not accessible, the freely available Praat script based on simple intensity thresholding might still provide robust properties even in severe dysarthria. Automated articulation rate assessment may serve as a natural, inexpensive biomarker for monitoring disease severity and a differential diagnosis of Parkinsonism. read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Articulatory undershoot of vowels in isolated REM sleep behavior disorder and early Parkinson’s disease
Dominik Skrabal,Jan Rusz,Michal Novotny,Karel Sonka,Evžen Růžička,Petr Dusek,Tereza Tykalová +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper , vowel articulation abnormalities were found to be present in isolated rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (iRBD) and early stage Parkinson's disease (PD) patients.
Journal ArticleDOI
Speech biomarkers in Huntington's disease: A cross‐sectional study in pre‐symptomatic, prodromal and early manifest stages
Tomáš Kouba,Wiebke Frank,Tereza Tykalová,Alžbeta Mühlbäck,Jiri Klempir,Katrin S. Lindenberg,Bernhard Landwehrmeyer,Jan Rusz +7 more
TL;DR: This article explored the patterns and extent of speech alterations using objective acoustic analysis in HD and assessed correlations with both rater-assessed phenotypical features and biological determinants of HD.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS): scale presentation and clinimetric testing results.
Christopher G. Goetz,Barbara C. Tilley,Stephanie R. Shaftman,Glenn T. Stebbins,Stanley Fahn,Pablo Martinez-Martin,Werner Poewe,Cristina Sampaio,Matthew B. Stern,Richard Dodel,Bruno Dubois,Robert G. Holloway,Joseph Jankovic,Jaime Kulisevsky,Anthony E. Lang,Andrew J. Lees,Sue Leurgans,Peter A. LeWitt,David L. Nyenhuis,C. Warren Olanow,Olivier Rascol,Anette Schrag,Jeanne A. Teresi,Jacobus J. van Hilten,Nancy R. LaPelle,Pinky Agarwal,Saima Athar,Yvette Bordelan,Helen Bronte-Stewart,Richard Camicioli,Kelvin L. Chou,Wendy Cole,Arif Dalvi,Holly Delgado,Alan Diamond,Jeremy P.R. Dick,John E. Duda,Rodger J. Elble,Carol Evans,V. G. H. Evidente,Hubert H. Fernandez,Susan H. Fox,Joseph H. Friedman,Robin D. Fross,David A. Gallagher,Deborah A. Hall,Neal Hermanowicz,Vanessa K. Hinson,Stacy Horn,Howard I. Hurtig,Un Jung Kang,Galit Kleiner-Fisman,Olga Klepitskaya,Katie Kompoliti,Eugene C. Lai,Maureen L. Leehey,Iracema Leroi,Kelly E. Lyons,Terry McClain,Steven W. Metzer,Janis M. Miyasaki,John C. Morgan,Martha Nance,Joanne Nemeth,Rajesh Pahwa,Sotirios A. Parashos,Jay S. Schneider,Kapil D. Sethi,Lisa M. Shulman,Andrew Siderowf,Monty Silverdale,Tanya Simuni,Mark Stacy,Robert Malcolm Stewart,Kelly L. Sullivan,David M. Swope,Pettaruse M. Wadia,Richard Walker,Ruth H. Walker,William J. Weiner,Jill Wiener,Jayne R. Wilkinson,Joanna M. Wojcieszek,Summer C. Wolfrath,Frederick Wooten,Allen Wu,Theresa A. Zesiewicz,Richard M. Zweig +87 more
TL;DR: The combined clinimetric results of this study support the validity of the MDS‐UPDRS for rating PD.
Journal ArticleDOI
MDS clinical diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease
Ronald B. Postuma,Daniela Berg,Matthew B. Stern,Werner Poewe,C. Warren Olanow,Wolfgang H. Oertel,Jose A. Obeso,Kenneth Marek,Irene Litvan,Anthony E. Lang,Glenda M. Halliday,Christopher G. Goetz,Thomas Gasser,Bruno Dubois,Piu Chan,Bastiaan R. Bloem,Charles H. Adler,Guenther Deuschl +17 more
TL;DR: The Movement Disorder Society PD Criteria retain motor parkinsonism as the core feature of the disease, defined as bradykinesia plus rest tremor or rigidity, and two levels of certainty are delineated: clinically established PD and probable PD.
Journal ArticleDOI
Second consensus statement on the diagnosis of multiple system atrophy
Sid Gilman,Gregor K. Wenning,Phillip A. Low,David J. Brooks,C. J. Mathias,John Q. Trojanowski,Nicholas W. Wood,Carlo Colosimo,Alexandra Durr,Clare J. Fowler,Horacio Kaufmann,Thomas Klockgether,AJ Lees,Werner Poewe,Niall Quinn,Tamas Revesz,David Robertson,Paola Sandroni,Klaus Seppi,Marie Vidailhet +19 more
TL;DR: New criteria for diagnosis of multiple system atrophy have simplified the previous criteria, have incorporated current knowledge, and are expected to enhance future assessments of the disease.
Journal ArticleDOI
International classification of sleep disorders-third edition: highlights and modifications.
TL;DR: Significant modifications have been made to the nosology of insomnia, narcolepsy, and parasomnias in the recently released third edition of the International Classification of Sleep Disorders.
Journal ArticleDOI
Hesitation Phenomena in Spontaneous English Speech
Howard Maclay,Charles E. Osgood +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reported an exploratory investigation of hesitation phenomena in spontaneously spoken English and made a distinction between non-chance statistical dependencies and all-or-nothing dependencies in linguistic methodology, and made some psycholinguistic implications.