This chapter provides an overview of inter-disciplinary research works on automatic
assessment of speech and language impairment in spoken discourse. Automatic …

The advent of machine-readable text revolutionized discourse analysis, ensuring
computation of myriad linguistic features, spanning vocabulary to semantics, quickly and at …

Speech disorder refers to the situation that affects the ability of a person to produce sounds
that generates words. People of any age can be affected by speech disorders. Speech …

It is widely accepted that information derived from analyzing speech (the acoustic signal)
and language production (words and sentences) serves as a useful window into the health …

ABSTRACTS The acoustic phonetic analysis of neurogenically disordered speech permits
considerable insights into the detailed nature and possible origin of such disorders …

Communication through speech is an essential requirement for social participation. It is a
way through which people exchange information, emotions, ideas and feelings. Hence …

Many pathologies cause impairments in the speech production mechanism resulting in
reduced speech intelligibility and communicative ability. To assist the clinical diagnosis …

Presents a summary of assessment and evaluation techniques for disordered speech, with
both a clinical and a research focus. This unique resource reviews research evidence …

Pathological speech processing is a very important field in the medical domain. From
children to elderly persons suffer from pathological speech disorders. Use of machine …

Almost 50 million people are living with dementia in 2018 worldwide, and the number will
double every 20 years. The effectiveness of existing pharmacologic treatments for the …