Fig. 1. Speech impairment ratings are reliable and associated with clinical features of PD.
A Graphical user interface for the manual rating of speech feature impairments using audio_tokens. When hovered-over with the mouse, colored circles play speech samples from separate patients with Parkinson’s disease (each represented by a different color), allowing for interactive and comparative rating (i.e., by clicking and sliding the circles horizontally) of impairments in each speech feature. Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) indicate reliability of speech ratings across three independent raters. B Significant linear relationships between voice, articulation, and prosody impairments and two common clinical scales in Parkinson’s disease: the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale part III (i.e., UPDRS-III, minus speech sub-scores) and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). All models controlled for age. Shaded intervals represent the 95% confidence interval.