Nina R Benway

Nina R Benway

I engineer theory-driven clinical artificial intelligence speech technologies to improve access to speech-language therapy, and I test how well these speech technologies work using clinical trial experimental designs.

Publications

McAllister, T., Hitchcock, E., Benway, N. R., Hill, J., and Preston, J. L. (2025). Protocol for Visual-acoustic Intervention with Service delivery In-person and via Telepractice (VISIT) Non-Inferiority Trial for Residual Speech Sound Disorder. BMC Pediatrics. 25 (1). doi

Herbst, B., Beiting, M., Schulteiss, M., Benway, N. R., and Preston, J. L. (2024). Speech in Ten-Minute Sessions: A Pilot RCT of the Chaining SPLITS Service Delivery Model. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. doi

Ng, S.-I., Xu, L., Siegert, I., Cummins, N., Benway, N. R., Liss, J., & Berisha, V. (2024). A Tutorial on Clinical Speech AI Development: From Data Collection to Model Validation. arXiv. doi

Munson, B. Wruck, C., Benway, N. R., and Preston, J. L. (2024). Gender and Age Biases in the Assessment of Speech Accuracy: A Study of Speech-Language Clinicians’ Ratings of /s/ Accuracy. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. doi

Benway, N.R., and Preston, J. L. (2024). Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Speech Therapy for /ɹ/: A Single Case Experimental Study. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 33 (5): 2461:2486. [doi] Doi: https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-23-00448

Benway, N.R., Preston, J. L., and Espy-Wilson, C. (2024) Evaluating Vocal Tract Coordination in Childhood Apraxia of Speech with Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion Feature Sets. INTERSPEECH 2024: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Kos, Greece. doi

Preston, J.L., Benway, N.R., Prestopnik, N., & Preston, N. (2024). The Speech Motor Chaining web app for speech motor learning. INTERSPEECH 2024: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Kos, Greece. doi

Benway, N.R., Preston, J. L., Salekin, A. Hitchcock, E., & McAllister, T. (2024). Evaluating Acoustic Representations and Normalization Techniques for Rhoticity Classification in Children with Speech Disorders. JASA Express Letters. ***Editor’s Pick. doi

Preston, J.L., Leece, M.C., Cabellero, N.F., Wang, D.L., Herbst, B.H., and Benway, N.R. (2023). A Randomized Controlled Trial of Treatment Distribution and Biofeedback Effects on Speech Production in School-Aged Children with Apraxia of Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. doi

Benway, N. R., & Preston, J. L. (2023). Clinical Efficacy and End User Acceptability of Motor-Based Intervention with Automated Mispronunciation Detection of Rhotics in Residual Speech Sound Disorders. INTERSPEECH 2023: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Dublin, Republic of Ireland. doi

Benway, N. R., Salekin, A., Xiao, Y., Sharma, H., & Preston, J. L. (2023). Classifying Rhoticity of /ɹ/ in Speech Sound Disorder using Age-and-Sex Normalized Formants: PERCEPT-R Classifier. INTERSPEECH 2023: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Dublin, Republic of Ireland. doi

Benway, N. R.*, Siriwardena, Y. M.*, Preston, J. L., Hitchcock, E., McAllister, T., & Espy-Wilson, C. (2023). Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion Features for Mispronunciation Detection in Child Speech Sound Disorders. INTERSPEECH 2023: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Dublin, Republic of Ireland. * denotes equal contributions. doi

Coretta, S., Dokovova, M., Mridhula, M., and the Open Science Framework Research Group. (2023). Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human speech analyses. *Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. *

Benway, N. R., Preston, J. L., Hitchcock, E. R., Rose, Y., Salekin, A., Liang, W., & McAllister, T. (2023). Reproducible Speech Research with the Artificial-Intelligence-Ready PERCEPT Corpora. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. doi

Benway, N.R., Preston, J.L., Hitchcock, E, Salekin, A. Sharma, H., & McAllister, T. (2022). PERCEPT-R: An Open-Access American English Child/Clinical Speech Corpus Specialized for the Audio Classification of /ɹ/. INTERSPEECH 2022: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Incheon, Republic of Korea.

Benway, N.R, Hitchcock, E. R., McAllister, T., Feeney, G. T., Hill, J., & Preston, J. L. (2021). Comparing Biofeedback Types for Children With Residual /ɹ/ Errors in American English: A Single-Case Randomization Design. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. doi

Preston, J.L., Benway, N.R., Leece, M.C., & Caballero, N.F. (2021). Concurrent validity between two sound sequencing tasks used to identify childhood apraxia of speech in school-age children. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. doi

Benway, N.R., Garcia, K., Hitchcock, E., McAllister, T., Leece, M., Wang, Q., & Preston, J. L. (2021). Associations Between Speech Perception, Vocabulary, and Phonological Awareness Skill in School-Aged Children with Speech Sound Disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. doi

Preston, J.L., Benway, N.R., Leece, M.C., Hitchcock, E., & McAllister, T. (2020). Tutorial: Motor-based Treatment Strategies for /r/ Distortions. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. doi

Benway, N.R., & Preston, J.L. (2020). Differences Between School-Aged Children with Apraxia of Speech and Other Speech Sound Disorders on Multisyllable Repetition. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups: Advances in Research and Clinical Management of CAS Forum. doi