Careful Whisper--leveraging advances in automatic speech recognition for robust and interpretable aphasia subtype classification

L Wagner, M Zusag, T Bloder - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.01327, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a fully automated approach for identifying speech anomalies from voice
recordings to aid in the assessment of speech impairments. By combining Connectionist …

Automatic quantitative analysis of spontaneous aphasic speech

D Le, K Licata, EM Provost - Speech Communication, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Aphasic speech recognition using a mixture of speech intelligibility experts

M Perez, Z Aldeneh, EM Provost - arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.10788, 2020 - arxiv.org
Robust speech recognition is a key prerequisite for semantic feature extraction in automatic
aphasic speech analysis. However, standard one-size-fits-all automatic speech recognition …

Classaphasia: an ensemble machine learning network to improve aphasia diagnosis and determine severity

J Maddipatla - 2022 IEEE International conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In light of medical biases and variability of Aphasia classes, determining the severity of the
Aphasia disorder warrants the use of machine learning to properly leverage patient data for …

A New Benchmark of Aphasia Speech Recognition and Detection Based on E-Branchformer and Multi-task Learning

J Tang, W Chen, X Chang, S Watanabe… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Aphasia is a language disorder that affects the speaking ability of millions of patients. This
paper presents a new benchmark for Aphasia speech recognition and detection tasks using …

Alzheimer's Dementia Detection Through Machine Learning: Analyzing Linguistic and Acoustic Features in Spontaneous Speech

Z Shah - 2023 - era.library.ualberta.ca
With the rapid aging of the world's population, the global burden of agingrelated mental
disorders, such as Alzheimer's dementia (AD), is also on the rise. Unfortunately global …

[PDF][PDF] Improving Automatic Recognition of Aphasic Speech with AphasiaBank.

D Le, EM Provost - Interspeech, 2016 - isca-archive.org
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 …

Detecting cognitive impairment from spoken language

TTWTAAH Alhanai - 2019 - dspace.mit.edu
Dementia comes second only to spinal cord injuries in terms of its debilitating effects; from
memory-loss to physical disability. The standard approach to evaluate cognitive conditions …

Automatic speech assessment for aphasic patients based on syllable-level embedding and supra-segmental duration features

Y Qin, T Lee, APH Kong - 2018 IEEE International Conference …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Data Augmentation for the Post-Stroke Speech Transcription (PSST) Challenge: Sometimes Less is More

J Yuan, X Cai, K Church - … of the RaPID Workshop-Resources and …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
We employ the method of fine-tuning wav2vec2. 0 for recognition of phonemes in aphasic
speech. Our effort focuses on data augmentation, by supplementing data from both in …