The Contributions of Pitch, Loudness, and Rate Control to Speech Naturalness in Cerebellar Ataxia
Objective acoustic measures of pitch variability in the FDA-2 pitch glide task and syllable duration and speech rate in the DDK task can be used to validate perceptual measures of speech naturalness. Overall, speech-language pathologists can incorporate both perceptual measures of speech naturalness and acoustic measures of pitch variability and DDK performance for a comprehensive evaluation of ataxic dysarthria.
Authors
- Caitlin Cloud (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6225-0135)
- Allison Hilger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5507-2042)
- Kaily Georgen-Schwartz
Institutions
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- Skagit Valley Hospital (US)
- University of Colorado System (US)
- Regional Health (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
- Published
- 2024-09-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_ajslp-24-00018
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Voice and Speech Disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.65
Funders
- Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders