Voice dysfunction in dysarthria: application of the Multi-Dimensional Voice Program™

Control of phonatory onset and offset in Parkinson patients following deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus and caudal zona incerta

“…An increased mean thyroarytenoid (TA) muscle activation and laryngeal somatosensory deficits has been observed for PD patients compared to age matched controls [4][5][6]. As a consequence, PD patients often make segmental voicing errors when speaking [6], which has been indicated as an important source of reduced intelligibility of speech in dysarthric patients [7][8][9].…”

Modelling Errors in Automatic Speech Recognition for Dysarthric Speakers

“…Based on the presentation of symptoms, dysarthria is classified as flaccid, spastic, mixed spastic-flaccid, ataxic, hyperkinetic, and hypokinetic [2][3][4]. In all types of dysarthria, phonatory dysfunction is a frequent impairment and is difficult to assess because it often occurs along with other impairments affecting articulation, resonance, and respiration [2][3][4][5][6].…”

“…In all types of dysarthria, phonatory dysfunction is a frequent impairment and is difficult to assess because it often occurs along with other impairments affecting articulation, resonance, and respiration [2][3][4][5][6]. Particularly, six impairment features are related to phonatory dysfunction, reducing the speaker's intelligibility and altering naturalness of his/her speech [4,7,8].…”

Communication Impairment in ALS Patients Assessment and Treatment

“…Using this test, speaking rate can also be accurately monitored over the telephone if a patient lives at a distance, or is unable to travel : it should be noted, anyway, that speech intelligibility could not be objectively assessed over the telephone, as a clinical measure of understandability. The vocal impairment can be difficult to assess because the voice disorder in dysarthria often occurs along with other impairments affecting articulation, resonance, and respiration: an effective assessment tool is the Multi-Dimensional Voice Program, a multi-parameter acoustic analysis (Kent et al, 2003).…”