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"abstract": "Autism speech has distinct acoustic patterns, different from normal speech. Analyzing acoustic features derived from the speech of children affected with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can help its early detection. In this study, a comparative analysis of the discriminating acoustic characteristics is carried out between ASD affected and normal children speech, from speech production point of view. Datasets of English speech of children affected with ASD and normal children were recorded. Changes in the speech production characteristics are examined using the excitation source features F0 and strength of excitation (SoE), the vocal tract filter features formants (F1 to F5) and dominant frequencies (FD1, FD2), and the combined source-filter features signal energy and zero-crossing rate. Changes in the acoustic features are compared in the five vowels regions of the English language. Significant changes in few acoustic features are observed for ASD affected speech as compared to normal speech. The differences between the mean values of the formants and dominant frequencies, for ASD affected and normal children, are highest for vowel /i/. It indicates that ASD affected children have possibly more difficulty in speaking the words with vowel /i/. This study can be helpful towards developing systems for automatic detection of ASD.",
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"text": "ASD is a pervasive developmental disorder, defined clinically by observing the abnormalities in three areas: communication, social reciprocity, and hyperfocus or reduced behavioral flexibility (Kjelgaard and Tager-Flusberg, 2001; Diehl et al., 2009; McCann and Pepp\u00e9, 2003) . Study shows, at least 50% of the total population of ASD tends to show atypical acoustic patterns in their speech, and it persists throughout the improvement of other language aspects (DePape et al., 2012; Baltaxe and Simmons, 1985; Fusaroli et al., 2017) . In fact, the exact characteristics of autism and its underlying mechanisms are also unclear (Kanner et al., 1943; Bonneh et al., 2011) . According to study, 1 in 150 individuals with autism was reported in 2002, which became 1 in 68 in 2014 (Kumar et al., 2018; Autism and Investigators, 2014) . It is reported that there are tens of millions of individuals with ASD worldwide, and it is affecting approximately 1.5% of our total population (Santos et al., 2013; Parish-Morris et al., 2016) .",
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"text": "Communication impairments, abnormal voice quality and disturbances of prosody are some of the most important aspects among individuals with ASD who speak Bonneh et al., 2011) . Individuals with ASD speak with distinctive acoustic patterns in their speech, and as a result they face social interaction deficits (Fusaroli et al., 2017) . The reason behind the language impairment in autism is the result of primary linguistic disorder with a focus on pragmatic impairments (Baltaxe, 1977) . Besides, the speech signal of the children with ASD is reported as improperly modulated, wooden, and dull (Baltaxe and Simmons, 1985) . In fact, in many cases, a significant spoken language delay and repetitive language can also be encountered (Mower et al., 2011) . In general, normal children start establishing their vocabularies at the age of two years, whereas the children with ASD may not be able to do the same (Tager-Flusberg et al., 2005; Short and Schopler, 1988) .",
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"text": "Previous studies mostly based on either speech prosody or unusual suprasegmental features of speech production of children with ASD (Bonneh et al., 2011) . Like, in Shriberg et al. (2001) , authors had reported the segmental and suprasegmental speech features of individuals with high-functioning autism (HFA). Also, some studies used objective measures to quantify speech related issues in autism (Bonneh et al., 2011) . Some of the most significant analyses based on pitch features of individuals with ASD were reported in Brisson et al. (2014) , Quigley et al. (2016) , etc., where in each study authors had reported different result from others. For instance, in Brisson et al. (2014) , authors had reported higher pitch value for ASD children as compared with normal children. On the other hand, in Quigley et al. (2016) , authors had reported lower pitch value for ASD children as compared with normal children. Besides, in the case of the intensity based analyses, some of the studies indicated no significant differences between ASD and normal children (Quigley et al., 2016; Hubbard and Trauner, 2007) . Likewise, based on duration (syllable duration, utterance duration, etc.), voice patterns, speech rate, etc., researchers had done some significant analyses on individuals with ASD (Santos et al., 2013; Kakihara et al., 2015; Bone et al., 2013) . But, none of the previous studies had done only on English vowels, especially pronounced by non-native Indian English speakers with ASD. Also, many robust speech features like dominant frequencies (FD1, FD2), strength of excitation (SoE), etc., had not been considered in previous studies. Therefore, in this study, we have considered all these mentioned points. This paper analyzed the autism speech, i.e., the speech signal of the children with ASD, by differentiating them from the normal children. Differences are made in terms of the speech production features of the ASD and the normal children. Here, only English vowels, i.e., /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/ are taken into consideration, because of their relatively longer duration in the case of children with ASD. Also, the production of vowels sounds by an individual is not a random process; hence it is important to find characteristics of the speech production mechanism of children with ASD during the pronunciation of vowels sounds. This study on analyzing the speech production characteristics of the children with ASD has high importance, because it may play a vital role in improving the communication impairments associated with ASD. In addition, current diagnostic criteria for ASD do not include any atypical vocalizations (Bonneh et al., 2011) . Hence, this study can be utilized as a diagnostic marker to identify ASD. This study consists of four major steps. Firstly, two speech signal datasets were collected, by recording the sound files of the ASD and the normal children. Secondly, unwanted signal parts were removed, and the speech signal files were arranged in two different databases for the ASD and the normal children. Thirdly, speech signal processing methods were applied on the collected datasets to extract the selected production features. Finally, results were made by differentiating between the ASD and the normal children in terms of their speech production features.",
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"text": "Mean (\u00b5) Values of the Source Features (F0 and SoE), Combined Source-filter Features (Energy E and Zero-crossing Rate ZCR) and Vocal Tract Filter Features (Formants Frequencies and Dominant Frequencies) of the Female Children with ASD and Normal (Nm): (a) Acoustic Features and (b)-(f) Mean Values for Five English Vowels; F1 to F5 Indicate First Five Formants Frequencies, Respectively, and FD1 and FD2 are First and Second"
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