Mirror Speech Entrainment for Nonfluent Aphasia

This study is exploring a new way to help people with nonfluent aphasia (difficulty speaking after a stroke) improve their speech. It's testing a technique called "Mirror Speech Entrainment" where you practice speaking along with a digitally altered version of your own voice. This is compared to traditional speech entrainment, where you speak along with another person's voice. The main goal is to see if using your own personalized voice helps more than traditional methods. The study is looking for 20 participants between 18 and 70 years old who speak English and have aphasia due to a left hemisphere stroke. We will measure how fast you speak to see if the interventions are successful.

Study design
This interventional study plans to enroll 20 participants. It compares different types of speech entrainment, including using your own voice and traditional methods.
What's involved
Participants will receive treatment, and their speaking rate will be measured from enrollment until the end of treatment at 6 weeks.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
Your speaking rate will be measured until the end of treatment at 6 weeks.

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NCT06829420

Mirror Speech Entrainment: A Novel Technique for Voice Personalized Speech Entrainment for Nonfluent Aphasia

Recruiting
NAAges 18–70InterventionalTreatment
University of South Florida
~20 participants
Updated 2026-04-21 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Mirror speech entrainmentTraditional speech entrainment: auditory-onlyTraditional speech entrainment: auditory-visual

At a glance

Recruiting sites
1 of 2 listed sites are recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Speaking rate
Measured over From enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks
Aphasia Non Fluent
Stroke
Aphasia

NCT06829420

Where you'd take part

This study runs at 2 sites. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.

  • University of South Florida

    Tampa, Floridastudy coordinator listed

    Not yet recruiting

  • University of South Florida

    Tampa, Floridastudy coordinator listed

    Recruiting

Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.

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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

Adults between the ages of 18-70 years old
Dominant English-speaking
Aphasia due to left hemisphere stroke

Exclusion

Individuals with aphasia due to other causes such as dementia, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinsonism
Non-dominant English adult speakers
Persons with significant difficulties with language comprehension
Persons with concomitant cognitive disability
Persons with uncorrected sensory deficits.
  • Speaking rateFrom enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks

    Language production as assessed by number of correct words produced per minute