Daniel Bone, Somer Bishop, Rahul Gupta, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth S. Narayanan. Acoustic-Prosodic and Turn-Taking Features in Interactions with Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. In Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 1185–1189, sep 2016.
Atypical speech prosody is a hallmark feature of autism spec- trum disorder (ASD) that presents across the lifespan, but is difficult to reliably characterize qualitatively. Given the great heterogeneity of symptoms in ASD, an acoustic-based objec- tive measure would be vital for clinical assessment and inter- ventions. In this study, we investigate speech features in child- psychologist conversational samples, including: segmental and suprasegmental pitch dynamics, speech rate, coordination of prosodic attributes, and turn-taking. Data consist of 95 children with ASD as well as 81 controls with non-ASD developmental disorders. We demonstrate significant predictive performance using these features as well as interpret feature correlations of both interlocutors. The most robust finding is that segmen- tal and suprasegmental prosodic variability increases for both participants in interactions with children having higher ASD severity. Recommendations for future research towards a fully-automatic quantitative measure of speech prosody in neurode- velopmental disorders are discussed.
@inproceedings{Bone2016Acoustic-ProsodicandTurn-TakingFeatures,
author = {Bone, Daniel and Bishop, Somer and Gupta, Rahul and Lee, Sungbok and Narayanan, Shrikanth S.},
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booktitle = {Proceedings of Interspeech},
doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1073},
link = {http://sail.usc.edu/publications/files/bone_IS161073.PDF},
month = {sep},
pages = {1185--1189},
title = {Acoustic-Prosodic and Turn-Taking Features in Interactions with Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders},
year = {2016}
}
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