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<div dir="auto">Dear Sir or Madam,<br /></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">I am a speech & language pathologist and PhD student (IRIT, UT3, Toulouse, France), currently conducting a thesis on the clinical relevance of intelligibility measures. In this context, I am interested </span>in collecting the opinions of a large international panel of speech and voice professionals (both clinicians and researchers in the fields of speech pathology, phoniatrics, phonetics, prosody, speech-related computer sciences…), in order to reach a consensus on <strong>what criteria have to be taken into account when creating a standard reading passage</strong> <strong>specifically designed for speech and voice assessment</strong>. </div>
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<div style="text-align:justify">For this purpose, I will be using the Delphi methodology, an extensively used group survey methodology that is conducted over several (usually three) consecutive rounds and is quasi-anonymous (the identity of each participant is only known to the main investigator/moderator, participants remain anonymous to each other, which allows for freedom of expression without any social or professional pressure from peers). </div>
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<div style="text-align:justify">This consensus survey, which will be carried out online on LimeSurvey, will be structured as follows: </div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size: 10pt"> 1) Definitions of speech-related concepts<span style="font-size: 10pt">*</span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size: 10pt"> 2) Perceptual and objective speech measures<span style="font-size: 10pt">*</span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size: 10pt"> 3) Criteria for creating standard reading passages</div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size: 10pt"><em style="font-size: 10pt">*questions in these sections will only be presented to participants with activities in speech and fluency disorders</em></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Attached to this email, you will find a notice containing more information about the project as well as the invitation letter which contains the link to the online survey.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">In order for me to collect as many answers as possible, could I ask you kindly to distribute my request to your affiliates? Or to suggest other contact persons?</span></div>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="color:black">The deadline to complete the first questionnaire is currently set to 31 August 2020.</span><br />
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<span style="color:black">I thank you very much for your consideration and for your help. </span><br />
<span style="color:black">Please, feel free to contact me at any time for further information.</span><br />
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Kind regards,<br />
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Timothy Pommée<br />
SLP and PhD student in computer science and telecommunications<br />
<a href="mailto:timothy.pommee@irit.fr" target="_blank">timothy.pommee@irit.fr</a></div>
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