[PDF][PDF] Modeling pronunciation, rhythm, and intonation for automatic assessment of speech quality in aphasia rehabilitation

D Le, EM Provost - Fifteenth Annual Conference of the International …, 2014 - isca-archive.org
Patients with aphasia often have impaired speech-language production skills, resulting in
tremendous difficulties in tasks that require verbal communication. To facilitate rehabilitation …

Identifying mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's disease based on spontaneous speech using ASR and linguistic features

G Gosztolya, V Vincze, L Tóth, M Pákáski… - Computer Speech & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that develops for years before
clinical manifestation, while mild cognitive impairment is clinically considered as a …

An assessment of paralinguistic acoustic features for detection of Alzheimer's dementia in spontaneous speech

F Haider, S De La Fuente, S Luz - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speech analysis could provide an indicator of Alzheimer's disease and help develop clinical
tools for automatically detecting and monitoring disease progression. While previous studies …

[PDF][PDF] Automatic speech recognition in the diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia

KC Fraser, F Rudzicz, N Graham… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - aclanthology.org
Narrative speech can provide a valuable source of information about an individual's
linguistic abilities across lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic levels. However, analysis of …

Automatic assessment of speech intelligibility for individuals with aphasia

D Le, K Licata, C Persad… - IEEE/ACM transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional in-person therapy may be difficult to access for individuals with aphasia due to
the shortage of speech-language pathologists and high treatment cost. Computerized …

Identification of affective state change in adults with aphasia using speech acoustics

S Gillespie, J Laures-Gore, E Moore, M Farina… - Journal of Speech …, 2018 - ASHA
Purpose The current study aimed to identify objective acoustic measures related to affective
state change in the speech of adults with post-stroke aphasia. Method The speech of 20 post …

Automated speech recognition in adult stroke survivors: Comparing human and computer transcriptions

A Jacks, KL Haley, G Bishop, TG Harmon - Folia Phoniatrica et …, 2019 - karger.com
Objective: Speech sound errors are common in people with a variety of communication
disorders and can result in impaired message transmission to listeners. Valid and reliable …

Automatic detection of cognitive impairments through acoustic analysis of speech

R Nagumo, Y Zhang, Y Ogawa… - Current Alzheimer …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Early detection of mild cognitive impairment is crucial in the prevention of
Alzheimer's disease. The aim of the present study was to identify whether acoustic features …

An efficient deep learning based method for speech assessment of mandarin-speaking aphasic patients

SS Mahmoud, A Kumar, Y Tang, Y Li… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speech assessment is an important part of the rehabilitation process for patients with
aphasia (PWA). Mandarin speech lucidity features such as articulation, fluency, and tone …

An evaluation of measures to dissociate language and communication disorders from healthy controls using machine learning techniques

J Gaspers, K Thiele, P Cimiano, A Foltz… - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Reliably distinguishing patients with verbal impairment due to brain damage, eg aphasia,
cognitive communication disorder (CCD), from healthy subjects is an important challenge in …