SNORS+
is a Windows 95® version of the University of Kent
SNORS airflow system. As well as being a stand-alone
SNORS system, SNORS+ also allows the addition of the
Kent Linguagraph electropalatography system and/or
Laryngograph® (i.e. it is SNORS plus other instruments).
In addition to the new software, SNORS+ utilises a
simple interface, to enable the connection of the
extra instruments to the computer’s standard SNORS
data acquisition card.

SNORS+ allows simultaneous assessment of five important
parameters of speech production, in real-time. Parameters
can be displayed as trend waveforms over time, or
as 2-D dynamic displays. Additionally, the detailed
speech and Laryngograph® Lx waveforms can be viewed.
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TREND CHANNELS AVAILABLE
- Nasal speech envelope
- Oral speech envelope
- Combined speech envelope
- Nasal airflow (egressive & ingressive)
- Oral airflow (egressive & ingressive)
- Combined airflow
- Nasalance (aerodynamic)
- Airflow ratio
- Voicing (Lx) envelope
- Alveolar tongue-palate contact*
- Palatal tongue-palate contact*
- Velar tongue-palate contact*
*These channels are not
real-time
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2-D DISPLAYS AVAILABLE
- Tongue-palate contact (EPG)
- Bi-directional bar (Any two real-time trend
channels.)
WAVE DISPLAYS AVAILABLE
- Speech waveform (Sp)
- Laryngograph waveform (Lx)
SPEECH PARAMETERS ASSESSED
- Speech intensity
- Respiration
- Voicing intensity
- Velopharyngeal closure
- Tongue-palate contact
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Developed by Paul
Sharp and Steve Kelly, Medical Electronics Research
Group, in collaboration with Alison Main, Speech &
language Therapist, South Kent Hospitals NHS Trust,
and Graham Manley, Dental Surgeon, East Kent Community
Dental Service. |