Dutch

Fine-Tuning Strategies for Dutch Dysarthric Speech Recognition: Evaluating the Impact of Healthy, Disease-Specific, and Speaker-Specific Data

We compare three fine-tuning strategies for Dutch dysarthric speech recognition, finding that combining healthy and dysarthric speech, as well as speaker-specific approaches, yield the best results.

Sep 1, 2024

Salience is in the brain of the beholder: ERPs reflect acoustically salient variables

This study uses Event Related Potentials (ERPs) to investigate linguistic salience, finding distinct neural responses to salient linguistic features.

Jan 1, 2022

Prosodic and Segmental Correlates of Spontaneous Dutch Speech in Patients with Parkinson's Disease: A Pilot Study

We analyzed prosodic and segmental acoustic measures in spontaneous speech of Dutch Parkinson's Disease patients, finding monopitch trends, reduced speech rate, and vowel centralization compared to healthy controls.

Jun 1, 2018

Acoustic and Perceptual Correlates of Vowel Articulation in Parkinson's Disease With and Without Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study

We investigated how cognitive impairment affects vowel articulation in Parkinson's Disease patients, finding centralized vowel formants, increased frequency variability, and reduced intelligibility compared to healthy controls.

Sep 12, 2017

Word and Phrasal Stress Disentangled: Pitch Peak Alignment in Frisian and Dutch Declarative Structures

We investigated pitch peak alignment in Frisian and Dutch declarative sentences, finding that both languages show delays compared to previous research, with Frisian exhibiting stronger delay in focus realization.

Jun 1, 2016