Speech Motor Systems Lab

Publications

• Ishikawa, K., & Anand, S. (2024). Tracking Age-Related Changes in Voice and Speech Production with Landmark-Based Analysis of Speech. The Journal of Acoustical Society of America Special Issue, 156, 1221-1230. (PDF)
• Anand, S.. (2023). Speed of pitch change in people with Parkinson’s disease – A Pilot study. Revista de Investigación e Innovación en Ciencias de la Salud, 5(2), 149-163.(PDF)
• Anand, S., Park, Y., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D.A. (2023). Evaluating the effect of voice quality covariance on auditory-perceptual evaluation using a novel two-dimensional magnitude estimation task. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 66(12), 4849-4859. (PDF)
• Pyfrom, M.P., Lister, J.J., & Anand, S. (EPub Ahead of Print) The influence of cognitive load on voice production: A scoping review. Journal of Voice.
• Park, Y., Anand, S., Brehm, S.B., Kelchner, L., Weinrich, B., McElfresh, K., Shrivastav, R., de Alarcon, A., & Eddins, D.A. (EPub Ahead of Print). Pediatric dysphonia: Effects of vibratory source on auditory-perceptual and bio-inspired computational measures of voice quality. Journal of Voice.
• Anand, S. (EPub Ahead of Print) Perceptual and computational estimates of vocal breathiness and roughness in sustained phonation and connected speech. Journal of Voice.
• Park, Y., Anand, S., Gifford, S.M., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D. A. (2023). Developing a single-variable comparison stimulus for matching strained voice quality based on spectral sharpness. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 66(1), 16-29. (PDF)
• Park, Y., Anand, S., Kopf, L.M., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D. A. (2022). Interactions between breathy and rough voice qualities and their contributions to overall dysphonia severity. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 65(11), 4071-4084.(PDF)
• Park, Y., Anand, S., Ozmeral, E. J., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D. A. (2022). Predicting perceived vocal roughness using a bio-inspired computational model of auditory temporal envelope processing. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 65(8), 2748-2758. (PDF)
• Anand, S., Gutierrez, D., & Bottalico, P. (In Press). Acoustic-perceptual correlates of voice among steam train engineers: Effects of noise and hearing protection. Journal of Voice.
• Eddins, D. A., Anand, S., Lang, A., & Shrivastav, R. (2021). Developing clinically relevant scales of breathy and rough voice quality. Journal of Voice, 35(4), 663.e9-663e16. (PDF)
• Anand, S., Bottalico, P., & Gray, C. (2021). Vocal fatigue in prospective vocal professionals. Journal of Voice, 35(2), 247-258. (PDF)
• Anand, S., Kopf, L., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D. A.(2021). Using pitch height and pitch strength to characterize type 1, 2, and 3 voice signals. Journal of Voice, 35(2), 181-193. (PDF)
• Anand, S., Kopf, L. M., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D. A. (2019). Objective indices of perceived vocal strain. Journal of Voice, 33(6) , 838-845. (PDF)
• Anand, S., Skowronski, M. D., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D. A., (2019). Perceptual and quantitative assessment of dysphonia across vowel catagories. Journal of Voice, 33(4) , 473-481. (PDF)
• Kopf, L., Skowronski, M. D., Anand, S., Eddins, D. A., & Shrivastav, R. (2019). The perception of breathiness in the voices of pediatric speakers. Journal of Voice, 33(2) , 204-213. (PDF)
• Grillo, E. U., Brosious, J. N., Sorrell, S. L., & Anand, S. (2016). Influence of smartphones and software on acoustic voice measures. International Journal of Telerehabilitation, 8(2), 9-14. (PDF)
• Eddins, D. A., Anand, S., Camacho, A., & Shrivastav, R. (2016). Modeling of breathy voice quality using pitch strength estimates. Journal of Voice, 30(6), 774.e1-774.e7 (PDF)
• Anand, S., & Stepp, C. E. (2015). Listener perceptions of monopitch, speech intelligibility and naturalness of individuals with Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 58(4), 1134-1144. (PDF)
• Shrivastav, R., Eddins, D. A., & Anand, S. (2012). Pitch strength of normal and dysphonic voices. The Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 131(3), 2261-2269. (PDF)
• Anand, S., Wingate, J., Chheda, N. N., & Shrivastav, R. (2012). An acoustic-perceptual study of vocal tremor. Journal of Voice, 26(6), 811.e1-7.(PDF)
• Anand, S., Wingate, J., Smith, B., & Shrivastav, R. (2012). Acoustic parameters critical for appropriate vibrato. Journal of Voice, 26(6), 820.e19-25.(PDF)
• Anand, S., El-Bashiti, N., & Sapienza, C. (2012). Effect of training frequency on maximum expiratory pressure. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 21(4), 380-386.(PDF)

Selected Presentations

* denotes student authors

** denotes invited talk

2024

• Awan, S.N., Park Y., Anand, S., Shrivastav R., & Eddins D.A. (2024). The Relationship Between Cepstral Peak Prominence and Pitch Strength in Complex Dysphonia. 53rd Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2024. Poster Presentation.
• Park, Y., Anand, S., Awan, S.N., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D.A. (2024) Concurrent Validity of a Three-Dimensional Matching Task for Breathy, Rough, and Strain Voice Quality. 53rd Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2024. Oral Presentation.

2023

• Park, Y., Anand, S., Awan, S.N., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D.A. (2023) Improving Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Disordered Voice Quality Using a Novel Three-Dimensional Matching Task. 185th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Sydney, Australia, December, 2023. Oral Presentation.
• Awan, S.N., Park, Y., Shrivastav, R., Eddins, D.A. & Anand, S. (2023). Exploring the relationship between cepstral peak prominence and pitch strength. Annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), Boston, MA, November, 2023.Oral Presentation.
• Park, Y., Anand, S., Brehm, S.B., Kelchner, L., Weinrich, B., Shrivastav, R., de Alarcon, A., & Eddins, D.A. (2023). Developing a manual and automated signal typing tool for use with pediatric dysphonia. Annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), Boston, MA, November, 2023. Oral Presentation.
• Park, Y., Awan, S.N., Anand, S., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D.A. (2023). Effect of modulated vocal effort on computational estimates of sharpness. 52nd Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June 2023. Oral Presentation.
• Anand, S., Park, Y., Brehm, S.B., Kelchner, L., Weinrich, B., McElfresh, K., Shrivastav, R., de Alarcon, A., & Eddins, D.A. (2023). Reliability of judgments of pediatric dysphonia using visual sort and rank and magnitude estimation. 52nd Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2023. Oral Presentation.
• Anand, S., Park, Y., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D.A. (2023). Sensitivity and specificity of auditory-based computational measure of breathy voice quality: A Comparison across databases and scaling methods. 52nd Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2023. Oral Presentation.
• Noble, A.R., Anand, S., Park, Y., Brehm, S.B., Kelchner, L., Weinrich, B., McElfresh, K., Shrivastav, R., Eddins, D.A., Tabangin, M., de Alarcon, A. (2023). Developing an automated perceptual evaluation of voice: Patient characteristics of children with supraglottic phonation after laryngotracheal reconstruction. Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings, Boston, MA, May, 2023. Poster Presentation.
• Park, Y., Anand, S., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D.A. (2023). Optimizing the comparison sound for a three-dimensional voice quality matching task. 15th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Laryngology, Voice, and Speech Research (AQL), Phoenix, AZ, April, 2023. Poster Presentation.
• Eddins, D.A., Anand, S., Park, Y., Awan, S.N., & Shrivastav, R. (2023). A comprehensive theoretical framework within which to examine the strained voice quality. 46th Annual Midwinter Meeting of Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Orlando, FL, February, 2023. Poster Presentation.
• Anand, S. (2023).Using pitch height and pitch strength to characterize Type 1, 2, and 3 voice signals. Voice Foundation All-Chapters Event, New York, NY, February,2023. Oral Presentation.
• Anand, S. (2023).Dysphonic Voice Quality Perception Across the Lifespan - Past, Present, and Future. USF-CSD Research Colloquium Series, Tampa, FL, January,2023. Oral Presentation.

2022

• Park, Y., Brehm, S.B., Kelchner, L., Weinrich, B., McElfresh, K., Anand, S., Shrivastav, R., de Alarcon, A., Eddins, D.A. (2022). Multidimensional Perceptual Structure of Pediatric Dysphonia: Effects of Vibratory Source. Annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), New Orleans, LA, November, 2022. Oral Presentation.
• Pyfrom, M. M., & Anand, S. (2022). The Influence of Cognitive Load on Voice Production: A Scoping Review. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine - 99th Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2022. Poster Presentation.
• Anand, S. (2022). Computational Estimates of Pitch Height and Pitch Strength in Dysphonic Voices. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine - 99th Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2022. Oral Presentation.
• Anand, S., Park, Y., Gifford, S.M., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D.A. (2022). Sharpening our ability to quantify vocal strain: Success with a computational model of spectral sharpness and a novel matching stimulus. 51st Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2022. Oral Presentation.
• Park, Y., Brehm, S.B., Kelchner, L., Weinrich, B., McElfresh, K., Anand, S., Shrivastav, R., de Alarcon, A., Eddins, D.A. (2022). Pediatric dysphonia: Effects of vibratory source on auditory-perceptual and bio-inspired computational measures of voice quality. 51st Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June 2022. Poster Presentation.

2021

• Park, Y., Ozmeral, E.J., Anand, S., Shrivastav, R., Eddins, D.A. (2021). Prediction of vocal roughness using measures of temporal envelope fluctuation obtained from an auditory model. Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA, December 2021. Poster Presentation.
• Anand, S., Park, Y., Shrivastav, R. & Eddins, D.A. (2021). Psychoacoustic Correlates of Perceived Vocal Strain: A Novel Comparison between Clean and Covary Strain Samples. Annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), Washington DC, November, 2021. Oral Presentation.
• Anand, S., Eddins, D.A., & Shrivastav, R. (2021). Effects of covarying breathiness and roughness on dysphonia severity in natural voices. 50th Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2021. Oral Presentation.

2020

• Eddins, D.A., Anand, S., Dyjak, M., & Shrivastav, R. (2020). Acoustic and Psychoacoustic Correlates of Perceived Vocal Strain. 49th Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, May, 2020. Oral Presentation.
• Gutierrez, D., Bottalico, P., & Anand, S. (2020). Impact of Hearing Protection and Background Noise on the Voice of Steam Train Engineers. 49th Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, May, 2020. Oral Presentation.

2019

• Anand, S., Eddins, D.A., Shrivastav, R., de Alarcon, A., Brehm, S. B., Kelchner, L., & Weinrich, B. (2019). Pitch-based Measures are Better Descriptors for Pediatric Voices with Supraglottic Vibratory Sources. Annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), Orlando, FL, November, 2019. Oral Presentation.
• Anand, S., Parthasarathy, A.B., Buffone, D., & Tsalatsanis, A. (2019). Timed Limb-Motor & Speech-Motor Evaluation in Parkinson's Disease. Annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), Orlando, FL, November, 2019. Poster Presentation.
• *Gutierrez, L., & Anand, S. (2019). Acoustic-Perceptual Correlates of Speech Naturalness in Parkinson's Disease: A Pilot Study. Annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), Orlando, FL, November, 2019. Poster Presentation.
• *Masso-Maldonado, P., & Anand, S. (2019). Speech Naturalness Profile on Different Tasks for People With Parkinson's Disease. Annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), Orlando, FL, November, 2019. Poster Presentation.
• ** Anand, S., Gutierrez, L., & Bottalico, P. (2019). Effects of Background Noise on Acoustic-Perceptual Correlates of Voice. 23rd International Congress on Acoustics, Aachen, Germany, September, 2019. Oral Presentation. Funded by USF International Travel Grant awarded to Supraja Anand.
• Anand, S. (2019). Effects of Aging and Dual Task Demands on Vocal Function. 48th Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2019. Poster Presentation.
• Eddins, D.A., Anand, S., & Shrivastav, R. (2019).Validation of Novel Clinical Scales for Voice Quality Perception. 48th Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2019. Oral Presentation.
• Eddins, D.A., Anand, S., & Shrivastav, R. (2019). Interactions among perceived breathiness, roughness, and overall severity of dysphonia. 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Louisville, KY, May, 2019. Poster Presentation.
• * Abraham, S., & Anand, S. (2019). Cepstral Measures of Articulation in Young Adults. USF Undergraduate Research Conference, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, April 2019. Poster Presentation.
• *Gutierrez, L., Anand, S., & Patel, S., (2019). Examining the Relationship Between Naturalness of Prosodic Dimensions and Overall Speech Naturalness. USF Undergraduate Research Conference, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, April 2019. Poster Presentation.
• *Masso-Maldonado, P., & Anand, S. (2018). Effect of Speech Task on Speech Naturalness and its Perceptual Correlates. USF Undergraduate Research Conference, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, April 2019. Poster Presentation. Winner of USF Student Research Award!
• *Yap, M., & Anand, S. (2019). Syllable Repetiton vs. Finger Tapping in People with Parkinson's Disease. USF Undergraduate Research Conference, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, April 2019. Poster Presentation.
• ** Anand, S. (2019). Voice Assessment: Recent Developments and Implications for Clinical Practice. 51st Annual Conference of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association, Bangalore, India, February, 2019. Oral Presentation.

2018

• Parveen, S., Anand, S., & Patel, S., (2018). Changes in Prosody in Parkinson's Disease: Speech Task Matters! Annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), Boston, MA, November, 2018. Poster Presentation.
• *Gutierrez, L., Masso-Maldonado, P., & Anand, S. (2018). Perceptual Correlates of Speech Naturalness for Speakers with Parkinson's Disease. Annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), Boston, MA, November, 2018. Poster Presentation.
• Eddins, D.A., Anand, S., & Shrivastav, R. (2018). A Psychoacoustic Approach to Understanding Dysphonic Voice: Quantifying Perception of Breathiness and Roughness in Vowels and Sentences. 34th World Congress of Audiology (WCA), Cape Town, South Africa, October, 2018. Oral Presentation.
• Anand, S., Patel, S., & Parveen, S. (2018). Speech Prosody and Naturalness: Potential Treatment Outcome Measures for Speakers with Parkinson's Disease. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine - 95th Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, October, 2018. Poster Presentation.
• Anand, S., Eddins, D. A., & Shrivastav, R. (2018). Perceptual and quantitative assessment of vocal roughness across sustained phonations and connected speech. 47th Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2018. Oral Presentation.
• *Gutierrez, L., Masso-Maldonado, P., & Anand, S. (2018). Speech naturalness and its perceptual correlates. USF Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, April 2018. Poster Presentation.
• Eddins, D.A., Anand, S., Skowronski, M. D., & Shrivastav, R. (2018). Psychoacoustics and Dysphonia. 12th Annual Meeting of the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Society (ACNS), Tampa, FL, January, 2018. Oral Presentation.

2017

• Anand, S., Eddins, D. A., & Shrivastav, R. (2017). Comparing roughness in sustained phonations and connected speech using a matching task. 174th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA, December, 2017. Poster Presentation.
• Eddins, D. A., Skowronski, M. D., Anand, S., & Shrivastav, R. (2017). Acoustic predictors and bio-inspired modeling of the perceived vocal breathiness of sustained phonations and continuous speech. 46th Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2017. Oral Presentation.
• Anand, S., & Skowronski, M. D. (2017). Effects of divided attention on speech motor performance of healthy young and old adults. Florida Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, May 2017. Oral Presentation.

2016

• Anand, S., Skowronski, M. D., & Shrivastav, R. (2016). Effect of speech tasks on cepstral measures of articulation. 5th joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI, December, 2016. Poster Presentation.
• Patel, S., Parveen, S., & Anand, S. (2016). Prosodic changes in Parkinson’s disease. 5th joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI, December, 2016. Poster Presentation.
• Eddins, D. A., Skowronski, M. D., Anand, S., & Shrivastav, R. (2016). Psychometric measurement of vocal strain using a matching task with sustained vowel stimuli. 5th joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI, December, 2016. Poster Presentation.
• Shrivastav, R., Skowronski, M. D., Anand, S., & Eddins, D. A., & (2016). Measurement of vocal breathiness perception with a matching task for sustained phonation and running speech. 5th joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI, December, 2016. Poster Presentation.
• *Riekers, L., & Anand, S. (2016). Effects of aging on speech motor control during dual task performance. Annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), Philadelphia, PA, November, 2016. Poster Presentation.
• *Avenoso, A., & Anand, S. (2016). Listener perceptions of attractiveness and dominance of female voices. 45th Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2016. Poster Presentation.
• Anand, S., Skowronski, M.D., & Parveen, S. (2016). Quantification of articulatory deficits in individuals with Parkinson’s disease using cepstral coefficients. Eighteenth Biennial Conference on Motor Speech Disorders and Speech Motor Control, Newport Beach, CA, March, 2016. Poster Presentation.
• Parveen, S., Anand, S., & Washburn, I. J. (2016). Naïve and Familiar Listeners’ Perceptions of Monologues Produced by Individuals with Parkinson Disease and Age-and-Gender Matched Healthy Speakers. Eighteenth Biennial Conference on Motor Speech Disorders and Speech Motor Control, Newport Beach, CA, March, 2016. Poster Presentation.

2015

• *Brosious, J., Grillo, E., & Anand, S. (2015). Assessment of aerodynamic functions in individuals with Parkinson’s disease. Annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), Denver, CO, November, 2015. Poster Presentation.
• Grillo, E., *Brosious, J., *Sorrell, S., & Anand, S. (2015). Smartphones maintain recording integrity for acoustic measures. Annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), Denver, CO, November, 2015. Poster Presentation.
• Anand, S., Shrivastav, R., & Wingate, J. (2015). Pitch diadochokinesis in individuals with Parkinson’s disease: A novel maximum performance task. 44th Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2015. Oral Presentation.

2014

• Anand, S., Murray, E. H., & Stepp, C. E. (2014). Autophonic scaling of loudness in individuals with Parkinson’s disease. Annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), Orlando, FL, November, 2014. Oral Presentation.

2013

• Anand, S., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D. A. (2013). Predicting breathiness using estimates of pitch strength. 42nd Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2013. Oral Presentation.

2012

• Skowronski, M. D., Shrivastav, R., Harnsberger, J., Anand, S., & Rosenbek, J. (2012). Acoustic discrimination of Parkinson's speech using cepstral measures of articulation. 164th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Kansas, MO, October, 2012. Poster Presentation.

2011

• Anand, S., El-Bashiti, N., & Sapienza, C. (2011). Expiratory Muscle Strength Training: Effects of frequency of training. Annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), San Diego, CA, November, 2011. Poster Presentation.
• Anand, S., Shrivastav, R., Eddins, D. A., & Camacho, A. (2011). Pitch strength of breathy voices. Pan European Voice Conference (PEVOC9), Marseille, France, August-September, 2011. Poster Presentation.
• Eddins, D. A., Shrivastav, R., Cordova, T. & Anand, S.(2011). Psychometric properties of a matching task for quantifying perception of roughness. 40th Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2011. Poster Presentation.

2010

• Anand, S., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D. A. (2010). Pitch strength of normal and dysphonic voices. 39th Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2010. Oral Presentation.
• Anand, S., Shrivastav, R., Wingate, J., & Smith, B. (2010). Acoustic parameters critical for appropriate vibrato. 39th Annual Symposium of the Voice Foundation: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2010. Oral Presentation.

2009

• Anand, S., Wingate, J., & Shrivastav, R. (2009). An acoustic perceptual study of voice tremor. Florida Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, December 2009. Poster Presentation.