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 …

It is commonly acknowledged that word or phoneme intelligibility is an important criterion in
the assessment of the communication efficiency of a pathological speaker. People have …

Pathological speech usually refers to the condition of speech distortion resulting from
atypicalities in voice and/or in the articulatory mechanisms owing to disease, illness or other …

Neurodegenerative diseases affect millions of people around the world. The progressive
degeneration worsens the symptoms, heavily impacting the quality of life of the patients as …

This special issue is expected to contribute to make this field more open and visible to
speech and signal processing experts, presenting the state of the art and the potentiality of …

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease ranked second after Alzheimer's
disease. It affects the central nervous system and causes a progressive and irreversible loss …

One in eight people world wide live with some kind of mental disorder which results in
significant disturbances in their thinking and emotional behaviour. While effective prevention …

Selection of relevant features is important for discriminating speech in detection based ASR
system, thus contributing to the improved performance of the detector. In the context of …

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 …