Speech under combined Schizophrenia and Salivary Flow Alterations – Preliminary Data and Results

We describe a method and the initial phase of building a database for investigating the combined effects of schizophrenia and drug-induced salivary flow alterations on speech and, based on the preliminary results, we propose a quantitative method of assessing these effects. We believe that this is the first attempt to conduct a systematic study with these two causes combined and with narrow focusing on speech changes related to fricatives.