Sentence examples for by a speech prosthesis from inspiring English sources
Objectives: To examine whether repeated production of a syllable effects levator veli palatini muscle activity for speakers with velopharyngeal incompetence and whether the effect can be changed by a speech prosthesis.
Results indicate significant potential for the use of vowel speech imagery as a speech prosthesis controller.
Participants: Four patients with operated cleft palate with a speech prosthesis.
With the goal of providing a speech prosthesis for individuals with severe communication impairments, we propose a control scheme for brain computer interfaces using vowel speech imagery.
Conclusion: In operated cleft palate patients with velopharyngeal incompetence, a speech prosthesis can stabilize both temporal changes in levator muscle activity and connected speech, such as conversation.
The success of this initial trial validates the potential of the intracortical microelectrode-based approach for providing a speech prosthesis that can allow much more rapid communication rates.
Tachimura T, Nohara K, Fujita Y, Wada T. Effect of a speech prosthesis on electromyographic activity levels of the levator veli palatini muscle activity during syllable repetition.
Finally, some might argue that patients with an electrolarynx or a speech prosthesis, such as a tracheoesophageal puncture, are "cured" and therefore it is not necessary to document their communication disability.
In the current study we utilized a novel approach to speech prosthesis that treats the problem as one of speech motor control.
However, speech features depend on the sampling rate of the speech and subsequently acoustic models built using features extracted at a certain sampling rate cannot be used by a speech engine to recognize speech sampled at a different sampling rate.
