Linguistically Informed Automated Estimates of Creak in Adductor Laryngeal Dystonia.
PURPOSE Creaky voice is a perceptually low-pitched and irregular voice quality that has shown promise as an objective marker of adductor laryngeal dystonia (AdLD). However, creak also occurs in mainstream American English through linguistic processes (i.e., phrase-final creak, /t/ glottalization, word-initial vowel glo...