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Introduction Assessment of speech production is an important part of the comprehensive evaluation process for people with aphasia (PWA). Subjective assessment of speech and language abilities of PWA is challenging because it requires not only clinical knowledge about aphasia but also good understanding of relevant linguistic and cultural background of the concerned language (s). An effective and reliable approach to objective assessment of PWA speech is highly desirable. The present study investigates the application of state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology to quantifying the linguistic and acoustic characteristics of PWA speech and then the development of an automatic assessment system. Methods Speech recordings of 118 unimpaired participants and 82 PWA from the Cantonese AphasiaBank (Kong & Law, 2018) were extracted. Each participant provided spoken narratives …