Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration
What can vowel acoustics reveal about the communicative participation of people living with ALS?
Abigail E Haenssler, June Okada, Marziye Eshghi, Alison Clark, Amrita Iyer, Brian D Richburg, Robert Cavanaugh, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Katherine M Burke, James D Berry, Jordan R Green, Kathryn P Connaghan
Published: 202510.1080/21678421.2025.2598433
Abstract
Objective: Bulbar dysfunction often diminishes the accuracy and speed of the tongue, lip, and jaw movements necessary for speech production. Vowel acoustic features derived from speech recordings can serve as sensitive markers of articulatory accurac…
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