Quantifying articulatory impairments in neurodegenerative motor diseases: A scoping review and meta-analysis of interpretable acoustic features.

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Purpose

Neurodegenerative motor diseases (NMDs) have devastating effects on the lives of patients and their loved ones, in part due to the impact of neurologic abnormalities on speech, which significantly limits functional communication. Clinical speech researchers have thus spent decades investigating speech features in populations suffering from NMDs. Features of impaired articulatory function are of particular interest given their detrimental impact on intelligibility, their ability to encode a variety of distinct movement disorders, and their potential as diagnostic indicators of neurodegenerative diseases. The objectives of this scoping review were to identify (1) which components of articulation (i.e. coordination, consistency, speed, precision, and repetition rate) are the m

SUBMITTER: Rowe HP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9950294 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature