Table 3.

Advantages of different types of speech‐eliciting tasks

Task and examples		Advantages
Constrained	Sustained vowel108 Maximum phonation time97	Optimal for measuring source and respiration features Captures muscle weakness and aspects of motor control
	Repeating “PATAKA”	Tests diadochokinetic rate,109 captures speech sequencing, and is a proxy for lung capacity
	Counting64	More control over acoustic patterns using a common vocabulary
	Reading110 Emotion‐evoking sentences Rainbow passage The Grandfather passage	More control over evoked emotions Contains every sound in English and is representative of normal speech111 Paragraph used to assess communication disorders112
Free speech	Monologue: describing, retelling happy, or traumatic memory86	More ecologically valid than reading
	Dialogue: Semi‐structured interviews73 Phone conversations33, 66, 113	Social dynamics (turn taking, intimacy) Already done in many clinics By not recording other caller, no need for diarization. Smartphones provide accelerometer data13