Perceived attention allocation of listeners who transcribe the speech of speakers with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

David R. Beukelman; Jana Childes; Tom Carrell; Trisha Funk; Laura J. Ball; Gary L. Pattee

doi:10.1016/j.specom.2010.12.005

Perceived attention allocation of listeners who transcribe the speech of speakers with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

David R. Beukelman, Jana Childes, Tom Carrell, Trisha Funk, Laura J. Ball, Gary L. Pattee

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the self-perceived attention allocation of listeners as they transcribed the speech samples of speakers with mild to severe dysarthria as a result of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Listeners reported that their perceived attention allocation increased consistently as speech intelligibility for sentences decreased from 100% to 75%. In this study, self-perceptions of attention allocation peaked between 75% and 80% intelligibility. These results support the conclusion that listeners experience a considerable perceptual load as they attempt to comprehend the messages of persons whose speech has relatively high intelligibility but distorted due to dysarthria.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	801-806
Number of pages	6
Journal	Speech Communication
Volume	53
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2010.12.005
State	Published - Jul 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Dysarthria
Perception

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Software
Modeling and Simulation
Communication
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Science Applications

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