Background In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has become commonplace in our daily
lives, making its way into many different settings, including health and rehabilitation. While …

VITHEA is an on-line platform designed to act as a “virtual therapist” for the treatment of
Portuguese speaking aphasic patients. Concretely, the system integrates automatic speech …

Aphasia is a common type of acquired language impairment resulting from dysfunction in
specific brain regions. Analysis of narrative spontaneous speech, eg, story-telling, is an …

Abstract Automatic Speech Recognition has reached almost human performance in some
controlled scenarios. However, recognition of impaired speech is a difficult task for two main …

One of the most common effects among aphasia patients is the difficulty to recall names or
words. Typically, word retrieval problems can be treated through word naming therapeutic …

This paper describes the rapid development of a Polish language speech recognition
system. The system development was performed without access to any transcribed acoustic …

This paper presents experiments in automatically diagnosing primary progressive aphasia
(PPA) and two of its subtypes, semantic dementia (SD) and progressive nonfluent aphasia …

In this work, we investigate the joint use of articulatory and acoustic features for automatic
speech recognition (ASR) of pathological speech. Despite long-lasting efforts to build …

Anomia (word-finding difficulties) is the hallmark of aphasia, an acquired language disorder
most commonly caused by stroke. Assessment of speech performance using picture naming …

Background: The classification of patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) into
variants is time-consuming, costly, and requires combined expertise by clinical neurologists …