Researchers estimate that 89% of people with Parkinson's disease (PD) have speech and voice disorders including disorders of laryngeal, respiratory and articulatory function. Despite the high ...

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We asked: can you train an automatic speech recognizer to understand people with dysarthria from Parkinson's by exposing it to a small group of people with similar speech patterns?" Hasegawa ...

Speech & swallowing difficulties: Parkinson’s disease can also affect the facial and throat muscles that can in turn affect the voice in some people with the disease, producing speech that may ...

An intensive speech therapy that involves loudly repeating words and phrases to 'rev up' the voice is an effective treatment for Parkinson's disease, a trial found. Nearly 90 per cent of Parkinson ...

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It is estimated that 1 in 37 people in the UK will be diagnosed with Parkinson's in their lifetime. The study entitled "Speech-in-noise hearing impairment is associated with increased risk of ...

Speech and voice disorders negatively impact people with Parkinson's Disease (PD) Between 85 and 90% of individuals with PD develop voice and speech disorders during the course of their illness.