Table 1.
Speaker characteristics.
| Speaker | Age | Gender | Dysarthria diagnosis | Dysarthria severity |
Perceptual features of connected speech | SIT score | Speech rate in wpm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 37 | M | Spastic | Profound | • Harsh vocal quality, imprecise articulation, short phrases | 5% | 54 |
| 2 | 33 | M | Hyperkinetic-spastic | Profound | • Irregular articulatory breakdowns, imprecise articulation | 7% | 63 |
| 3 | 24 | F | Hyperkinetic-spastic | Profound | • Irregular articulatory breakdowns, imprecise articulation | 16% | 23 |
| 4 | 58 | F | Spastic | Severe | • Hypernasality, imprecise articulation | 34% | 75 |
| 5 | 46 | F | Spastic | Severe | • Harsh vocal quality, hypernasality, imprecise articulation | 25% | 38 |
| 6 | 42 | F | Spastic | Severe | • Hypernasality, imprecise articulation | 27% | 81 |
| 7 | 21 | M | Hyperkinetic-spastic | Moderate | • Harsh vocal quality, irregular articulatory breakdowns, imprecise articulation |
48% | 56 |
| 8 | 33 | F | Spastic | Moderate | • Breathy voice, short phrases, imprecise articulation | 50% | 102 |
| 9 | 55 | M | Spastic | Moderate | • Hypernasality, imprecise articulation, short phrases | 70% | 84 |
| 10 | 37 | M | Spastic | Mild | • Harsh vocal quality, imprecise articulation, short phrases | 76% | 59 |
| 11 | 32 | F | Spastic | Mild | • Breathy voice, imprecise articulation, short phrases | 83% | 148 |
| 12 | 53 | F | Hyperkinetic-spastic | Mild | • Hypernasality, imprecise articulation, short phrases | 85% | 70 |