Despite the continuous innovation in voice biomarkers domain for more than a decade and
the apparent need for clinicians to have objective diagnostic tools, no device has yet been …

Given the high prevalence of mental disorders and the significant diagnostic delays and
difficulties in patient follow-up, voice biomarkers hold the promise of improving access to …

Purpose Diagnosis and treatment in psychiatry are still highly dependent on reports from
patients and on clinician judgement. This fact makes them prone to memory and subjectivity …

Diseases can affect organs such as the heart, lungs, brain, muscles, or vocal folds, which
can then alter an individual's voice. Therefore, voice analysis using artificial intelligence …

Dysphonia is an often-underestimated vocal tract problem caused by irregular vocal cords
vibration. It has been proved that dysphonia can be considered as a symptom of vocal tract …

Purpose Diagnosis and treatment in psychiatry are still highly dependent on reports from
patients and on clinician judgment. This fact makes them prone to memory and subjectivity …

Voice disorders, such as dysphonia, are common among the general population. These
pathologies often remain untreated until they reach a high level of severity. Assisting the …

Quantifying neurological disorders from voice is a rapidly growing field of research and
holds promise for unobtrusive and large-scale disorder monitoring. The data recording setup …

Importance Depression is an illness affecting a large percentage of the world's population
throughout the lifetime. To date, there is no available biomarker for depression detection and …

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 …