What is a smart palate?

The SmartPalate System shows the students exactly where their tongue is supposed to touch their palate when producing different speech sounds. This biofeedback system consists of a customized acrylic mouthpiece with sensors that capture tongue-to-palate contact (the SmartPalate) and a software program.

What is Electropalatography used for?

Appropriate tongue and hard palate contacts will ensure proper sound production. Electropalatography, also known as EPG, is a device that can be used to identify the location of the tongue and hard palate contact. It can also be used by a speech therapist to help patients who have a speech disorder.

What is Electropalatography EPG?

Electropalatography (EPG) is a technique used to monitor contacts between the tongue and hard palate, particularly during articulation and speech. A custom-made artificial palate is moulded to fit against a speaker’s hard palate.

How does a Nasometer work?

It is typically used to assess the extent of nasal escape in cleft palate and provide feedback during therapy and other clinical applications. It works by measuring the acoustic output from the oral and nasal openings cavities and calculating the ratio.

What is the hard palate?

The hard palate is a horizontal bony plate that forms a subsection of the palate of the mouth. It forms the anterior two-thirds of the roof of the oral cavity. The hard palate is comprised of two facial bones: the palatine process of the maxilla and the paired palatine bones.

What is Nasalance and How Is It Measured?

Nasalance is a measure of the degree of velopharyngeal opening in voiced speech formed by computing the ratio of the amplitude of the acoustic energy at the nares, An, to amplitude of the acoustic energy at the mouth, Am.

What is Visi pitch?

Visi-Pitch is an application software designed for voice and speech capture analysis. This application is used for the clinical assessment of speech and voice, and provides an understanding of phonatory behavior.

What’s a soft palate?

The back, muscular (not bony) part of the roof of the mouth.

What is the meaning of nasality?

Definitions of nasality. a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators. types: nasal twang, twang. exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)