Latah is one of fluency disorder. Latah speech production is unique because there is a systematic repetition of sounds. Study on latah speech based on speech production has never been done. Therefore, this study identify the process of speech production of latah by applying acoustic phonetics approach. This study uses a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods with experimental approach. Data measured using praat application. The result shows that latah speech has a unique character, which has a duration of increasingly rapid character from thebeginning to the end of the segment, it has a regular tone structure, with signs of increasing in intensity in the segment of the sound /e/ in the middle of the speech.
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