Aprosodic Speech:

Terms Related to Aprosodic Speech

• Speech Synthesizer

  Equipment that provides mentally or physically disabled persons, who cannot speak effectively, with a means of communication. The aids include display boards, typewriters, cathode ray ...

• Speech Pathology

  The study of speech or language disorders and their diagnosis and correction.

• Speech Intelligibility

  Ability to make speech sounds that are recognizable.

• Speech Articulation Disorder

  Disorders of the quality of speech characterized by the substitution, omission, distortion, and addition of phonemes.

• Speech Sonography

  The graphic registration of the frequency and intensity of sounds, such as speech, infant crying, and animal vocalizations.

• Speech Audiometry

  Measurement of the ability to hear speech under various conditions of intensity and noise interference using sound-field as well as earphones and bone oscillators.

• Speech Discrimination Test

  Tests of the ability to hear and understand speech as determined by scoring the number of words in a word list repeated correctly.