Prosodic analysis of neutral, stress-modified and rhymed speech in patients with Parkinson's disease

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RIV/00216224:14110/16:00092800 RIV/00216305:26220/16:PU117477 RIV/00159816:_____/16:00066179

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2015.12.011" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.cmpb.2015.12.011</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Prosodic analysis of neutral, stress-modified and rhymed speech in patients with Parkinson's disease

Original language description

Background and objective: Hypokinetic dysarthria (HD) is a frequent speech disorder associated with idiopathic Parkinson&apos;s disease (PD). It affects all dimensions of speech production. One of the most common features of HD is dysprosody that is characterized by alterations of rhythm and speech rate, flat speech melody, and impairment of speech intensity control. Dysprosody has a detrimental impact on speech naturalness and intelligibility. Methods: This paper deals with quantitative prosodic analysis of neutral, stress-modified and rhymed speech in patients with PD. The analysis of prosody is based on quantification of monopitch, monoloudness, and speech rate abnormalities. Experimental dataset consists of 98 patients with PD and 51 healthy speakers. For the purpose of HD identification, sequential floating feature selection algorithm and random forests classifier is used. In this paper, we also introduce a concept of permutation test applied in the field of acoustic analysis of dysarthric speech. Results: Prosodic features obtained from stress-modified reading task provided higher classification accuracies compared to the ones extracted from reading task with neutral emotion demonstrating the importance of stress in speech prosody. Features calculated from poem recitation task outperformed both reading tasks in the case of gender-undifferentiated analysis showing that rhythmical demands can in general lead to more precise identification of HD. Additionally, some gender-related patterns of dysprosody has been observed. Conclusions: This paper confirms reduced variation of fundamental frequency in PD patients with HD. Interestingly, increased variability of speech intensity compared to healthy speakers has been detected. Regarding speech rate disturbances, our results does not report any particular pattern. We conclude further development of prosodic features quantifying the relationship between monopitch, monoloudness and speech rate disruptions in (...)

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30210 - Clinical neurology

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

ISSN

0169-2607

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

127

Issue of the periodical within the volume

April 2016

Country of publishing house

IE - IRELAND

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

301-317

UT code for WoS article

000372521500025

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84955586481