Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
10 results found in speech.
- Deaf Speech (Deaf Accent, Deaf Voice)
- Accented speech produced by many individuals who are deaf or significantly hard of hearing, resulting from incomplete acoustic feedback from their own voices. Because deaf speakers cannot fully hear t…
- Dysarthric Speech (Dysarthria)
- Dysarthric speech is speech that is affected by dysarthria, a motor speech disorder resulting from neurological injury or conditions that affect the muscles used for speech production. Characteristics…
- Echolalia (Echoing, Echolalic Speech)
- The repetition or echoing of words, phrases, or sounds spoken by others, commonly observed in individuals with autism spectrum disorder and some other developmental conditions. Echolalia can be immedi…
- Hyperarticulation (Clear Speech, Over-Articulation)
- A speaking style in which a person exaggerates the clarity of their pronunciation by moving their tongue and mouth to more extreme positions, producing more distinct vowel and consonant sounds. Hypera…
- Macroglossia (Enlarged Tongue)
- A condition characterized by an abnormally large tongue relative to the oral cavity, commonly associated with Down syndrome and certain other genetic conditions. Macroglossia affects speech production…
- Prosody (Speech Prosody, Intonation Patterns)
- The patterns of stress, rhythm, intonation, and timing in speech that convey meaning beyond the literal words. Prosody communicates emotions, emphasis, questions versus statements, sarcasm, and conver…
- Speaker-dependent speech recognition (User-adapted ASR, Personalized speech recognition)
- A speech recognition approach that trains or adapts its acoustic models to a specific individual's voice characteristics, rather than relying solely on general population models. For people with cogni…
- Speech Input (Voice input, Voice control, Speech recognition input)
- An input method that allows users to control devices or enter text by speaking rather than using manual touch or keyboard input. Speech input is particularly important for people with visual impairmen…
- Voice banking (Voice preservation, Speech banking)
- The process of recording and storing samples of a person's natural voice so that a synthetic version can be created for future use with text-to-speech systems. Voice banking is particularly important …
- Web Speech API (Web Speech, SpeechSynthesis API)
- A browser-native JavaScript API that provides speech recognition and speech synthesis capabilities directly within web applications. The Web Speech API enables developers to add text-to-speech and voi…