Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
7 results found in speech accessibility.
- Avoidance Behaviour (Avoidance Behaviors, Covert Stuttering)
- Strategies used by people who stutter to conceal or prevent stuttering events, including substituting feared words with easier alternatives, talking around a word (circumlocution), using filler words …
- Disfluency (Dysfluency, Speech Disfluency)
- Any interruption or break in the normal flow of speech, including repetitions, prolongations, blocks, interjections (such as "um" or "uh"), and revisions. While all speakers experience occasional disf…
- Dysfluency (Disfluency, Speech Dysfluency)
- An interruption in the normal flow of speech, including repetitions of sounds, syllables, or words ("b-b-because"), prolongations of sounds ("ssssnake"), blocks (silent pauses where speech is temporar…
- Electrolarynx (Artificial Larynx, Electronic Larynx)
- A handheld, battery-powered device that produces voice for people who have lost their larynx. The device is held against the neck or cheek and generates vibrations that travel through the throat tissu…
- Laryngectomy (Total Laryngectomy)
- The surgical removal of the larynx (voice box), typically performed as treatment for advanced laryngeal or throat cancer. A total laryngectomy results in the permanent loss of the natural voice, as th…
- Stuttering (Stammering, Speech Disfluency Disorder)
- A speech disorder characterized by involuntary disruptions in the flow of speech, including repetitions of sounds, syllables, or words (e.g., "w-w-water"), prolongations of sounds (e.g., "sssssnake"),…
- Voice Customization (Voice Personalization, Custom Voice)
- The process of creating or modifying synthetic voices to match a user's preferences or identity, including attributes such as gender, age, pitch, breathiness, hoarseness, and speech variation. Voice c…