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Brief Report: Quantifying Speech Production Coordination from Non- and Minimally-Speaking Individuals.
Talkar, Tanya; Johnson, Kristina T; Narain, Jaya; Maes, Pattie; Picard, Rosalind; Quatieri, Thomas F.
Afiliação
  • Talkar T; Human Health and Performance Systems, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA. Tanya.Talkar@ll.mit.edu.
  • Johnson KT; Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Tanya.Talkar@ll.mit.edu.
  • Narain J; MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • Maes P; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
  • Picard R; Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
  • Quatieri TF; MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
J Autism Dev Disord ; 2024 Apr 13.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38613592
ABSTRACT

PURPOSE:

Non-verbal utterances are an important tool of communication for individuals who are non- or minimally-speaking. While these utterances are typically understood by caregivers, they can be challenging to interpret by their larger community. To date, there has been little work done to detect and characterize the vocalizations produced by non- or minimally-speaking individuals. This paper aims to characterize five categories of utterances across a set of 7 non- or minimally-speaking individuals.

METHODS:

The characterization is accomplished using a correlation structure methodology, acting as a proxy measurement for motor coordination, to localize similarities and differences to specific speech production systems.

RESULTS:

We specifically find that frustrated and dysregulated utterances show similar correlation structure outputs, especially when compared to self-talk, request, and delighted utterances. We additionally witness higher complexity of coordination between articulatory and respiratory subsystems and lower complexity of coordination between laryngeal and respiratory subsystems in frustration and dysregulation as compared to self-talk, request, and delight. Finally, we observe lower complexity of coordination across all three speech subsystems in the request utterances as compared to self-talk and delight.

CONCLUSION:

The insights from this work aid in understanding of the modifications made by non- or minimally-speaking individuals to accomplish specific goals in non-verbal communication.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2024 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2024 Tipo de documento: Article