Evidence of cue use and performance differences in deciphering dysarthric speech

• Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 131; no. 2; p. EL112
• Main Authors: Choe, Yu-kyong, Liss, Julie M, Azuma, Tamiko, Mathy, Pamela
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.02.2012
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Auditory Perception - physiology; Cues; Dysarthria - psychology; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Observer Variation; Phonetics; Speech Intelligibility - physiology; Young Adult

There is substantial performance variability among listeners who transcribe degraded speech. Error patterns from 88 listeners who transcribed dysarthric speech were examined to identify differential use of syllabic strength cues for lexical segmentation. Transcripts from listeners were divided into...