Dementia is a common neurodegenerative condition involving the deterioration of cognitive and communication skills. Pausing in the speech of people with dementia is a dysfluency that may be used to signal conversational trouble in social interaction. This study aimed to examine the speech-pausing profile within picture description samples from people with dementia and healthy controls (HCs) within the DementiaBank database using the Calpy computational speech processing toolkit. Sixty English-speaking participants between the ages of 53 and 88 years (M_age = 67.43, SD = 8.33; 42 females) were included in the study: 20 participants with mild cognitive impairment, 20 participants with moderate cognitive impairment, and 20 HCs. Quantitative analysis shows a progressive increase in the duration of pausing between HCs, the mild dementia group, and the moderate dementia group, respectively.

痴呆是一种常见的神经退行性疾病，涉及认知和沟通技巧的下降。痴呆症患者的言语中的停顿是一种不满情绪，可用于表示社交互动中的对话麻烦。这项研究旨在使用Calpy计算语音处理工具包，从DementiaBank数据库中的痴呆症患者和健康对照者（HC）的图片描述样本中检查语音暂停模式。第六讲英语的53和88岁之间的参与者（M_年龄= 67.43，SD = 8.33；研究中纳入了42名女性）：20名轻度认知障碍参与者，20名中度认知障碍参与者和20种HC。定量分析显示，HC，轻度痴呆组和中度痴呆组之间的停顿持续时间分别增加。