Priyadharshini Veeramani

All India Institute of Speech and Hearing | AIISH · Department of Clinical Services

Professional voice users include singers, teachers, actors, professional speakers, and other entertainers. There are a group of non-elite voice users such as priests, vendors, bus conductors, etc., who are also dependent on their voice for daily living. Temple priests who chant Vedas and mantras the whole day without any form of amplification are a...

Laryngeal videostroboscopy is widely used for the analysis of glottal vibration patterns. This analysis plays a crucial role in the diagnosis of voice disorders. It is essential to study these patterns using automatic glottis segmentation methods to avoid subjectiveness in diagnosis. Glottis detection is an essential step before glottis segmentatio...

Language is one of the many abilities that are unique to humankind. The link between language and cognition has been studied upon extensively through theories, models and experimental investigations. The interplay between the components of language and cognition has a vital role in processes such as language acquisition, word learning, sentence pro...

Children with SLI (CwSLI) are identified to have a significant delay in language (mostly in expressive language), with preserved non-verbal abilities. There are different views put forth to account for deficits among CwSLI, which are namely, cognitive-based (deficits in working memory and procedural memory), language-based (morpho-syntax deficits)...

The perception of prosody is necessary to understand the intent of a spoken utterance, especially to appreciate the intricacies of a language. Prosody or the supra-segmental component is made up of stress (accent), intonation and the rhythmic (timing) patterns of language. Stress indicates the most prominent syllable/word in an utterance. Literatur...

Nasal sounds are characterized by nasal resonance which is a subjective perception of nasal components of speech. The Nasometer was developed to quantify the nasal resonance (Nasalance), and has been found to be a valid and reliable measure for evaluating nasality objectively. Nasalance is the ratio of nasal acoustic energy to nasal and oral acoust...