Speech Rate Control for The Compound HearingAid Processing

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Zhang ◽  
T. Sakata ◽  
Y. Ueda
Keyword(s):  
Rate Control ◽  
Speech Rate

Large-scale subjective evaluations of speech rate control methods for HMM-based speech synthesizers

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsuneo Kato ◽  
Makoto Yamada ◽  
Nobuyuki Nishizawa ◽  
Keiichiro Oura ◽  
Keiichi Tokuda
Keyword(s):  
Rate Control ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Speech Rate ◽  
Control Methods ◽  
Subjective Evaluations

Treatment and Generalization Effects in an Experimental Treatment for a Stutterer Using Contingency Management and Speech Rate Control

1977 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger J. Ingham ◽  
Ann Packman
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Program ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Rate Control ◽  
Speech Rate ◽  
Contingency Management ◽  
Experimental Treatment ◽  
Rate Range ◽  
Negative Findings ◽  
Control Procedures

An experimental treatment program for an adult stutterer, using contingency management and rate control procedures, is described. During laboratory sessions, a combination of both procedures resulted in maintained stutter-free speech within a target speech rate range. Bidaily recordings of the subject’s speech across all non-laboratory speaking situations, preceding and throughout the laboratory treatment, revealed no correspondence between laboratory and nonlaboratory speech behavior. Some positive and negative findings from this study are considered with respect to contingency management of stuttering.

Retrospective Examination of Failed Rate-Control Intervention

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Marshall ◽  
Colleen M. Karow
Keyword(s):  
Rate Control ◽  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Speech Rate ◽  
Speech Disorders ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Clinical Report ◽  
Motor Speech Disorders ◽  
Control Intervention ◽  
Retrospective Examination

Individuals with motor-speech disorders are frequently admonished by clinicians to "slow down" to improve speech intelligibility and comprehensibility. Although most reports of rate-control therapy highlight the benefits of specific procedures, all patients are not candidates for these interventions. The subject of this clinical report is AC, a 40-year-old man who had spoken with an extremely rapid speech rate for 17 years following a traumatic brain injury but was never treated for the problem. Traditional rate-control interventions were not effective in slowing AC's speech rate nor in reducing its handicapping effects. In this report we supply background information on AC; initial assessment data from speech- language pathology, neurology, and neuropsychology; and describe rate-control interventions that were not effective with AC. A retrospective examination of this case was conducted to elucidate possible reasons why treatment was unsuccessful. This involved (a) an instrumental assessment of selected features of AC's speech rate (using equipment not available for the initial evaluation) and (b) a reinterpretation of other assessment information. Findings revealed how AC's speech differed from that of a normally speaking control subject and other normative data and provided insights on how he accomplished his rapid speech rate. This prompted us to consider (a) possible explanations for AC's fast rate, (b) reasons for failed rate-control intervention, and (c) what we learned from this case that would be useful to clinicians in management of similar patients.

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