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  1. Acoustic and Perceptual Characteristics of Compressed Dysarthric Speech: Implications for Teleassessment

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, July 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss, Rene Utianski

  2. Apple AirPods Pro 2 Live Listen as an Assistive Listening Device

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, January 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  3. Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Cross-Language Intelligibility Assessment of Dysarthric Speech

    Article • Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, October 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss, Eunjung Yeo, David Mortensen

  4. Evaluating Model Interpretability in Speech-Based Clinical Artificial Intelligence Systems

    Article • Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, September 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  5. The Use of Conversational Repairs in Interactions Involving People With Parkinson's Disease: A Large Corpus Comparison Study

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss, Katerina Tetzloff

  6. Electroencephalographic Classification Reveals Atypical Speech Motor Planning in Stuttering Adults

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  7. Operationalizing Clinical Speech Analytics: Moving From Features to Measures for Real-World Clinical Impact

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  8. Achieving Reproducibility in EEG-Based Machine Learning

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  9. Wav2DDK: Analytical and Clinical Validation of an Automated Diadochokinetic Rate Estimation Algorithm on Remotely Collected Speech

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  10. Speech Entrainment in Adolescent Conversations: A Developmental Perspective

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss, Camille Wynn

  11. Performance of Forced-Alignment Algorithms on Children's Speech

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss, Tristan Mahr

  12. The Orofacial Somatosensory System Is Modulated During Speech Planning and Production

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  13. Sync Pending: Characterizing Conversational Entrainment in Dysarthria Using a Multidimensional, Clinically Informed Approach

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, January 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  14. Objective Intelligibility Assessment by Automated Segmental and Suprasegmental Listening Error Analysis

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, September 2019, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  15. The Effects of Speech Compression Algorithms on the Intelligibility of Two Individuals With Dysarthric Speech

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, February 2019, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss, Steven Sandoval, Rene Utianski

  16. ALS longitudinal studies with frequent data collection at home: study design and baseline data

    Article • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Julie Liss

  17. Predicting Intelligibility Gains in Individuals With Dysarthria From Baseline Speech Features

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, November 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  18. Predicting Intelligibility Gains in Dysarthria Through Automated Speech Feature Analysis

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, November 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  19. Assessing Vowel Centralization in Dysarthria: A Comparison of Methods

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, February 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  20. Experiments on Auditory-Visual Perception of Sentences by Users of Unilateral, Bimodal, and Bilateral Cochlear Implants

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2016, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss, Sarah Natale

  21. Online speaking rate estimation using recurrent neural networks

    Article • March 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  22. A Pilot Study of the Tongue Pull-Back Exercise for Improving Tongue-Base Retraction and Two Novel Methods to Add Resistance to the Tongue Pull-Back

    Article • Dysphagia, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Julie Liss, Catherine Off

  23. Hilbert spectral analysis of vowels using intrinsic mode functions

    Article • December 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  24. Estimating speaking rate in spontaneous discourse

    Article • November 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  25. The relationship between speech segment duration and vowel centralization in a group of older speakers

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2015, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  26. Assessing vowel centralization in dysarthria: A comparison of methods

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, September 2015, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  27. Convex Weighting Criteria for Speaking Rate Estimation

    Article • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  28. Removing data with noisy responses in regression analysis

    Article • April 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  29. Cortical characterization of the perception of intelligible and unintelligible speech measured via high-density electroencephalography

    Article • Brain and Language, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Julie Liss

  30. Free-Classification of Perceptually Similar Speakers With Dysarthria

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  31. Domain invariant speech features using a new divergence measure

    Article • December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  32. Rhythm as a Coordinating Device: Entrainment With Disordered Speech

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  33. Modeling pathological speech perception from data with similarity labels

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  34. Vowel Acoustics in Dysarthria: Speech Disorder Diagnosis and Classification

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, February 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  35. Vowel Acoustics in Dysarthria: Mapping to Perception

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, February 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  36. Computational Modelling of Conversational Entrainment: A Novel Framework for Examining Spoken Interaction in Communication Disorders

    Article • January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  37. Characterizing the distribution of the quadrilateral vowel space area

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, January 2014, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  38. Bandwidth Extension of Speech Using Perceptual Criteria

    Article • Synthesis Lectures on Algorithms and Software in Engineering, November 2013, Morgan & Claypool Publishers LLC

    Dr. Julie Liss

  39. The effects of speech compression algorithms on the intelligibility of dysarthric speech

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  40. Speech assist: An augmentative tool for practice in speech-language pathology

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  41. Using tactile aids to provide low frequency information for cochlear implant users

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  42. Automatic assessment of vowel space area

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  43. Feature divergence of pathological speech

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  44. A word to the eyes: Visual cues benefit lexical segmentation in noise

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  45. Towards a clinical tool for automatic intelligibility assessment

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  46. Selecting disorder-specific features for speech pathology fingerprinting

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  47. Crosslinguistic Application of English-Centric Rhythm Descriptors in Motor Speech Disorders

    Article • Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, January 2013, Karger Publishers

    Dr. Julie Liss

  48. The role of linguistic and indexical information in improved recognition of dysarthric speech

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, January 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  49. Familiarisation conditions and the mechanisms that underlie improved recognition of dysarthric speech

    Article • Language and Cognitive Processes, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Julie Liss

  50. The effect of visual information on speech perception in noise by electroacoustic hearing

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, September 2012, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  51. A follow-up investigation into the mechanisms that underlie improved recognition of dysarthric speech

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, August 2012, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  52. Cortical activation during the perception of intelligible and unintelligible speech as measured via high- density electroencephalography

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2012, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  53. Perceptual Learning of Dysarthric Speech: A Review of Experimental Studies

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, February 2012, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  54. Evidence of cue use and performance differences in deciphering dysarthric speech

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, February 2012, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  55. Automated rhythmic discrimination of dysarthria types

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2011, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  56. Free classification of dysarthric speech

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2011, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  57. Discriminating language and talker using non-linguistic measures of rhythm, spectral energy and f0

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2011, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  58. Envelope modulation spectrum: Exploring the challenges to intelligibility of dysarthric speech.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2011, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  59. Stable production rhythms across languages for bilingual speakers.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2011, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  60. Contribution of vowel distinctiveness to intelligibility and vowel identification accuracy of dysarthric speech.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2011, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  61. A Cognitive-Perceptual Approach to Conceptualizing Speech Intelligibility Deficits and Remediation Practice in Hypokinetic Dysarthria

    Article • Parkinson s Disease, January 2011, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr. Julie Liss

  62. Discriminating Dysarthria Type From Envelope Modulation Spectra

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2010, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  63. Quantifying Speech Rhythm Abnormalities in the Dysarthrias

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2009, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  64. Erratum: 1pSC11. Discriminating dysarthria type and predicting intelligibility from amplitude modulation spectra [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, 2530 (2009)]

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, September 2009, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  65. The use of fundamental frequency for lexical segmentation in listeners with cochlear implants

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, June 2009, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  66. Discriminating dysarthria type and predicting intelligibility from amplitude modulation spectra.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2009, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  67. The differential effects of dysarthria type on lexical segmentation.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2009, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  68. Talker recognition using envelope modulation spectra.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, January 2009, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  69. Disordered speech as a testing ground for listener learning and adaptation.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, January 2009, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  70. Predicting perceptual outcomes from acoustic measures of vowels in dysarthria: A classification analysis.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, January 2009, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  71. The use of fundamental frequency information by cochlear implant patients with residual low‐frequency hearing

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2008, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  72. Acoustic cues to lexical segmentation: A study of resynthesized speech

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, December 2007, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  73. Quantifying speech rhythm deficits in dysarthria

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2007, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  74. Word recognition in dysarthric speech: Evidence for the time‐course hypothesis

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2007, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  75. Clinical-pathologic study of biomarkers in FTDP-17 (PPND family with N279K tau mutation)

    Article • Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, May 2007, Elsevier

    Dr. Julie Liss

  76. Speech Characteristics of Patients With Pallido-Ponto-Nigral Degeneration and Their Application to Presymptomatic Detection in At-Risk Relatives

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2006, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  77. Analysis of High-Frequency Electroencephalographic-Electromyographic Coherence Elicited by Speech and Oral Nonspeech Tasks in Parkinson’s Disease

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2006, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  78. The Effect of Aging and Synthetic Topic Cues on the Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech

    Article • Augmentative and Alternative Communication, March 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Julie Liss

  79. Effects of Mechanical, Cold, Gustatory, and Combined Stimulation to the Human Anterior Faucial Pillars

    Article • Dysphagia, February 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Julie Liss

  80. The effects of familiarization on intelligibility and lexical segmentation in hypokinetic and ataxic dysarthria

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, December 2002, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  81. Acoustic vowel space in 13 large Utah families

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2000, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  82. A Comparison of Equal-Appearing Interval Scaling and Direct Magnitude Estimation of Nasal Voice Quality

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2000, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  83. Multidimensional Scaling of Nasal Voice Quality

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2000, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  84. Lexical boundary error analysis in hypokinetic and ataxic dysarthria

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, June 2000, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  85. Syllabic strength and lexical boundary decisions in the perception of hypokinetic dysarthric speech

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 1998, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  86. Error-Revision in the Spontaneous Speech of Apraxic Speakers

    Article • Brain and Language, May 1998, Elsevier

    Dr. Julie Liss

  87. An exploration of listener strategies in the lexical segmentation of hypokinetic dysarthric speech

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, September 1996, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  88. Interjudge Agreement in Videofluoroscopic Studies of Swallowing

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, February 1996, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  89. The Influence of Familiarity on Judgments of Treated Speech

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, February 1995, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  90. The role of listener familiarity in the perception of dysarthric speech

    Article • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, January 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Julie Liss

  91. Selected acoustic characteristics of contrastive stress production in control geriatric, apraxic, and ataxic dysarthric speakers

    Article • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Julie Liss

  92. Qualitative acoustic analysis in the study of motor speech disorders

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 1992, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  93. Prosodic marking in the error revision of apraxic speakers

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 1992, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  94. Acoustic analysis of vowels produced by young and elderly women in spontaneous speech.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 1991, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  95. Muscle Spindles in the Human Levator Veli Palatini and Palatoglossus Muscles

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 1990, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  96. Effects of speech rate on the absolute and relative timing of apraxic and conduction aphasic sentence production

    Article • Brain and Language, January 1990, Elsevier

    Dr. Julie Liss

  97. Acoustic characteristics of contrastive stress production in normal geriatric, apraxic, conduction aphasic, and dysarthric speakers

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 1989, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss

  98. Acoustic characteristics of speech produced by an older geriatric population

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 1988, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Julie Liss