Predicting Intelligibility Deficits in Parkinson's Disease With Perceptual Speech Ratings.

Conclusions Speech in individuals with PD was more difficult for listeners to understand and was characterized by deficits in articulation, prosody, resonance, and voice quality compared to normal speech produced by healthy older adults. Ease of understanding ratings, even when performed in quiet, predicted intelligibility in noise. Poor voice quality ratings in PD, a sign of phonatory deficit, had a negative impact on intelligibility in noise for speakers with PD. PMID: 32097080 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32097080?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - February 23, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Chiu YF, Neel A Tags: J Speech Lang Hear Res Source Type: research

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