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 …

Automatic recognition of aphasic speech is challenging due to various speech-language
impairments associated with aphasia as well as a scarcity of training data appropriate for …

Narrative speech can provide a valuable source of information about an individual's
linguistic abilities across lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic levels. However, analysis of …

The rehabilitation of aphasics is fundamentally based on the assessment of speech
impairment. Developing methods for assessing speech impairment automatically is …

Aphasia is a type of acquired language impairment resulting from brain injury. Speech
assessment is an important part of the comprehensive assessment process for aphasic …

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

Aphasia is a type of speech disorder that can cause speech defects in a person. Identifying
the severity level of the aphasia patient is critical for the rehabilitation process. In this …

Aphasia is an acquired language disorder resulting from damage to language related
networks of the brain, most often as a result of ischemic stroke or traumatic brain injury …

Purpose Spontaneous speech tasks are critically important for characterizing spoken
language production deficits in aphasia and for assessing the impact of therapy. The utility of …