Data, Output, and Code: A Clinical Advantage: Experience informs recognition and adaptation to a novel talker with dysarthria

Abstract

Perceptual training paradigms, which leverage the mechanism of perceptual learning, show that naïve listeners, those with no prior experience with dysarthria, benefit from explicit familiarization with a talker with dysarthria. The assumption, that familiarization affords listeners an opportunity to acquire distributional knowledge of the degraded speech signal. Here, we extend investigations to clinically experienced listeners, Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), and advance models of listener recognition and adaptation to dysarthric speech