Innovative Speech Articulation Tools for Neuroscience Research

用于神经科学研究的创新语音清晰度工具

• 批准号: 8253437
• 负责人: SUZANNE Elizabeth BOYCE
• 金额: $ 50.88万
• 依托单位: SPEECH TECHNOLOGY/APPLIED RESEARCH CORP.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-11 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8253437
• 关键词: Acoustics; Address; Affect; Area; Behavior; Behavior Disorders; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; Biomedical Research; Characteristics; Child; Clinical Research Protocols; Collaborations; Communities; Complement; Computer software; Computers; Custom; Data; Data Analyses; Data Reporting; Data Sources; Detection; Deterioration; Development; Disabled Persons; Disease; Documentation; Emotional; Feedback; Foundations; Fruit; Future; Goals; Hand; Health Status; Hearing Aids; Human; Individual; Investigation; Joints; Laboratories; Libraries; Measurement; Measures; Methodology; Methods; Modeling; Neurologic; Neurosciences Research; Output; Parkinson Disease; Phase; Population; Preparation; Procedures; Process; Production; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Science; Scientist; Signal Transduction; Sleep; Software Tools; Specific qualifier value; Speech; Speech Acoustics; Surveys; System; Systems Analysis; Technology; Testing; United States National Institutes of Health; Ursidae Family; Work; Writing; base; computer program; design; handicapping condition; innovation; interest; motor control; open source; response; skills; software development; statistics; tool; user friendly software; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Changes in speech articulation can accompany many biomedical disorders and conditions that affect neurological control of speech. Historically, measuring these changes by acoustic analysis has required either laborious hand measurement or computer programming skill. As part of the output of previous work, we have developed fast automatic computer procedures based on acoustic landmarks for a number of specific studies. These procedures considerably streamline the process of acquiring and analyzing speech production data. In multiple collaborations we have found that the method we have developed to produce these procedures yields significant and useful results in widely separated areas of neurological interest. However, development of these procedures has thus far proceeded in response to the particular needs of individual projects and has not systematically addressed the needs of outside users. In response to PA 08-114, we will expand our library of procedures into a convenient software tool, SpeechMark, for wider use by scientists with or without a background in speech research. SpeechMark's modules will be presented as a menu of specific measures and will be provided in the form of plug-ins ("ports") to existing analysis software tools such as WaveSurfer, the R statistical-analysis system, MATLAB, and Excel. They will offer summary statistics for the measures as well as for additional composite measures that we have found to be reliable indicators of the existence of speech differences between populations or conditions. Further, SpeechMark will be set up to report data from a single audio file, or groups of audio files in a standard table format, for easy input to statistical or other analysis software We plan to develop an organized methodology in, a common Software Development Kit (SDK) as a foundation for every SpeechMark port. This will enable us to maintain existing ports and develop new ones in response to the changing needs of the user community. As envisioned by PA 08-114, the availability of such tools will "jump-start" the use of speech production analysis across a wide range of neurologically important areas of research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Changes in health status and speaking condition often affect the articulation of speech. Scientific investigation of these changes has been handicapped by lack of access to robust, user-friendly software tools for fast, automatic measurement of speech acoustics. The software development is aimed at making acoustic landmark-detection software, which is focused on articulation, available to a wider community of scientists in the form of add-ons to existing analysis software tools such as WaveSurfer, MATLAB, and Excel.

描述（由申请人提供）：语音发音的变化可能伴随着许多影响言语神经系统控制的生物医学疾病。从历史上看，通过声学分析测量这些变化需要费力的手工测量或计算机编程技能。作为先前工作的输出的一部分，我们基于声学地标制定了快速自动计算机程序，用于许多特定的研究。这些过程大大简化了获取和分析语音生产数据的过程。在多次合作中，我们发现我们开发的生产这些程序的方法在广泛分离的神经系统兴趣领域中产生了重要的结果。但是，到目前为止，这些程序的开发已响应各个项目的特定需求，并且没有系统地满足外部用户的需求。 为了响应PA 08-114，我们将把程序库扩展到一个方便的软件工具，即SpeechMark，供科学家在语音研究中更广泛使用。 Speechmark的模块将作为特定措施的菜单提供，并以插件（“端口”）的形式提供给现有分析软件工具 例如WaveSurfer，R统计分析系统，MATLAB和Excel。他们将提供有关措施的摘要统计数据以及我们发现的其他综合措施，这些措施是人口或条件之间语音差异存在的可靠指标。此外，将设置语音标记以报告单个音频文件或标准表格式的一组音频文件的数据，以便于对统计或其他分析软件的输入，我们计划开发有组织的方法论，这是一个通用软件开发套件（SDK），作为每个演讲标志端口的基础。这将使我们能够维护现有端口，并根据用户社区不断变化的需求来开发新端口。正如PA 08-114所设想的那样，此类工具的可用性将“启动”语音生产分析在广泛的神经学重要的研究领域中使用。 公共卫生相关性：健康状况和说话状况的变化通常会影响言语的表达。由于缺乏获得强大的，用户友好的软件工具，无法快速，自动测量语音声学，因此对这些变化的科学研究受到了残障的困扰。该软件开发旨在制作旨在以表达为阐述的声学里程碑检测软件，该软件可供更广泛的科学家社区，其形式是现有分析软件工具（例如WaveSurfer，Matlab和Excel）的形式。