An Automated Approach to Examining Pausing in the Speech of People With Dementia
2020; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 35; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/1533317520939773
ISSN1938-2731
AutoresRachel A. Sluis, Daniel Angus, Janet Wiles, Andrew D. Back, Tingting Gibson, Jacki Liddle, Peter Worthy, David A. Copland, Anthony J. Angwin,
Tópico(s)Language Development and Disorders
ResumoDementia is a common neurodegenerative condition involving the deterioration of cognitive and communication skills. Pausing in the speech of people with dementia is a dysfluency that may be used to signal conversational trouble in social interaction. This study aimed to examine the speech-pausing profile within picture description samples from people with dementia and healthy controls (HCs) within the DementiaBank database using the Calpy computational speech processing toolkit. Sixty English-speaking participants between the ages of 53 and 88 years (M
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