Clinical trial · Observational
Task of Acoustic-phonetic Decoding on Anatomic Deficits in Paramedical Assessment of Speech Disorders for Patients Treated for Oral or Oropharyngeal Cancer
Validity of a Task of Acoustic-phonetic Decoding on Anatomic Deficits in Paramedical Assessment of Speech Disorders for Patients Treated for Oral or Oropharyngeal Cancer
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
The bridging of the gap between speech production and perception by the interlocutor would be made possible by the use of a more suitable and automatic task. An acoustic-phonetic decoding test (or DAP in French, i.e. the production of isolated pseudo-words in repetition or reading), created within the framework of the The French National Cancer Institute (InCA) C2SI project, avoids the effects of cognitive restoration by the interlocutor. An automatic score from the DAP would lead to an overall score per patient, but also to scores specific to each phonetic segment, to be correlated with the analytical scores from each anatomical oropharyngeal segment. The study hypothesis is that the automatic processing of an acoustic-phonetic decoding task during the assessment in current practice is a valid and reliable tool for diagnosing oropharyngeal analytical and dynamic deficits by highlighting deficient linguistic units. The study hypothesis is that the automatic processing of an acoustico-phonetic decoding task during the assessment in current practice is a tool for diagnosing oropharyngeal analytical and dynamic deficits by highlighting deficient linguistic units.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speech Intelligibility | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acoustic-phonetic decoding task (DAP) | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- label
- Patients treated for an oral or oropharyngeal tumor for at least 6 months
- description
- Patients treated for an oral or oropharyngeal tumor for at least 6 months
- interventionNames
- Other: Acoustic-phonetic decoding task (DAP)
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Correlation coefficient
- timeFrame
- Day 1
- description
- Correlation coefficient between he automatic score by phoneme class from the DAP and the score for each oropharyngeal anatomical segment from muscle testing
Secondary outcomes (3)
- measure
- Human perceptual score - Direct transcription
- timeFrame
- Day 1
- description
- the speech therapist will transcribe the pseudo-word he thinks he has recognized immediately after the subject says it, using software installed on the examination computer. A perceptual score of linguistic traits of average difference (between expected production and perception by the speech therapist) by phoneme will then be determined.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients aged at least 18 years old and benefiting from a social security scheme * Native French-speaking patients * Patients treated for cancer of the oral cavity or oropharynx (surgical and / or radiotherapy and / or chemotherapy treatment) * Patients in clinical remission for at least 6 months (chronic nature and stability of the disorders) * All tumor sizes according to the tumor (T), node (N), and metastasis (M) categories (TNM classification) (T1 to T4) * Patients with a perceptible speech disorder in a conversational situation or not (to allow the determination of fine deficits) * Patients who do not object to carrying out the research Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with an associated pathology potentially responsible for speech or fluency disorders (joint, speech and language disorders of developmental, organic or functional origin, voice disorders of organic or functional origin, stammering , stammering, fluency disturbances, speech disturbances of neurological origin) * Patients reporting an auditory complaint and not having a hearing aid * Inability to provide the person with enlightened information and to ensure the subject's compliance because of impaired physical and / or psychological health, * Patients participating in another research including an exclusion period still in progress.
References
Publications (3)
- BACKGROUNDBalaguer M, Farinas J, Fichaux-Bourin P, Puech M, Pinquier J, Woisard V. Validation of the French Versions of the Speech Handicap Index and the Phonation Handicap Index in Patients Treated for Cancer of the Oral Cavity or Oropharynx. Folia Phoniatr Logop. 2020;72(6):464-477. doi: 10.1159/000503448. Epub 2019 Nov 15. PMID 31734664
- BACKGROUNDBalaguer M, Champenois M, Farinas J, Pinquier J, Woisard V. The (head and neck) carcinologic handicap index: validation of a modular type questionnaire and its ability to prioritise patients' needs. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2021 Apr;278(4):1159-1169. doi: 10.1007/s00405-020-06201-6. Epub 2020 Jul 14. PMID 32666294
- BACKGROUNDLalain M, Ghio A, Giusti L, Robert D, Fredouille C, Woisard V. Design and Development of a Speech Intelligibility Test Based on Pseudowords in French: Why and How? J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2020 Jul 20;63(7):2070-2083. doi: 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00088. Epub 2020 Jun 29. PMID 32598209