Conventionally, automatic assessment of pathological speech involves two main steps:(1)
extraction of pathology-specific features;(2) classification or regression of extracted features …

Conventional automatic assessment of pathological speech usually follows two main
steps:(1) extraction of pathology-specific features;(2) classification or regression on …

Speech assessment is an essential part of the rehabilitation procedure for patients with
aphasia (PWA). It is a comprehensive and time-consuming process that aims to discriminate …

This paper presents an investigation on applying automatic speech recognition (ASR) to
speech assessment of people with aphasia (PWA). A distinctive characteristic of PWA …

Aphasia is a type of acquired language impairment caused by brain injury. This paper
presents an automatic speech recognition (ASR) based approach to objective assessment …

For automatic assessment of language impairment in natural speech, properly designed text-
based features are needed. The feature design relies on experts' domain knowledge and …

This paper describes the application of state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR)
systems to objective assessment of voice and speech disorders. Acoustical analysis of …

This paper describes an investigation on automatic speech assessment for people with
aphasia (PWA) using a DNN based automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. The main …

Spontaneous speech analysis plays an important role in the study and treatment of aphasia,
but can be difficult to perform manually due to the time consuming nature of 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 …