Basic parameters of spontaneous speech as a sensitive method for measuring change during the course of aphasia

M Grande, K Hussmann, E Bay… - … Journal of Language …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Spontaneous speech of aphasic persons is often scored on rating scales
assessing aphasic symptoms. Rating scales have the advantage of an easy and fast scoring …

[PDF][PDF] Using the Outputs of Different Automatic Speech Recognition Paradigms for Acoustic-and BERT-Based Alzheimer's Dementia Detection Through Spontaneous …

Y Pan, B Mirheidari, JM Harris, JC Thompson… - Interspeech, 2021 - isca-archive.org
Exploring acoustic and linguistic information embedded in spontaneous speech recordings
has proven to be efficient for automatic Alzheimer's dementia detection. Acoustic features …

[HTML][HTML] An automatic assessment system for Alzheimer's disease based on speech using feature sequence generator and recurrent neural network

YW Chien, SY Hong, WT Cheah, LH Yao, YL Chang… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease and other dementias have become the 7th cause of death worldwide.
Still lacking a cure, an early detection of the disease in order to provide the best intervention …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting speech fluency and naming abilities in aphasic patients

J Wang, S Marchina, AC Norton, CY Wan… - Frontiers in human …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
There is a need to identify biomarkers that predict degree of chronic speech
fluency/language impairment and potential for improvement after stroke. We previously …

[HTML][HTML] Improving aphasic speech recognition by using novel semi-supervised learning methods on aphasiabank for english and spanish

IG Torre, M Romero, A Álvarez - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Automatic speech recognition in patients with aphasia is a challenging task for which studies
have been published in a few languages. Reasonably, the systems reported in the literature …

[PDF][PDF] Using text and acoustic features to diagnose progressive aphasia and its subtypes.

KC Fraser, F Rudzicz, E Rochon - Interspeech, 2013 - isca-archive.org
This paper presents experiments in automatically diagnosing primary progressive aphasia
(PPA) and two of its subtypes, semantic dementia (SD) and progressive nonfluent aphasia …

Auditory-perceptual rating of connected speech in aphasia

M Casilio, K Rising, PM Beeson, K Bunton… - American Journal of …, 2019 - ASHA
Purpose Auditory-perceptual assessment, in which trained listeners rate a large number of
perceptual features of speech samples, is the gold standard for the differential diagnosis of …

The development and accuracy testing of CommFit™, an iPhone application for individuals with aphasia

C Brandenburg, L Worrall, D Copland, E Power… - Aphasiology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Background: There has been an increasing amount of focus on measuring the ICF concept
of participation in the rehabilitation of people with aphasia. The amount of time that people …

The psychometric properties of the communicative competence scale for individuals with aphasia using speech-generating devices

KL Brock, R Koul, M Corwin, RW Schlosser - Aphasiology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Persons with aphasia (PWA) use augmentative and alternative communication
(AAC) systems to access and create symbol-based messages. The purpose of this study …

Assessment of aphasia across the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health using an iPad-based application

YE Guo, L Togher, E Power, E Hutomo… - Telemedicine and e …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Abstract Background: Access2Aphasia™ is an iPad™-based aphasia assessment
application that enables real-time audiovisual communication between people with aphasia …