Speech analysis for health: Current state-of-the-art and the increasing impact of deep learning

N Cummins, A Baird, BW Schuller - Methods, 2018 - Elsevier
Due to the complex and intricate nature associated with their production, the acoustic-
prosodic properties of a speech signal are modulated with a range of health related effects …

Detecting depression using vocal, facial and semantic communication cues

JR Williamson, E Godoy, M Cha… - Proceedings of the 6th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is known to result in neurophysiological and
neurocognitive changes that affect control of motor, linguistic, and cognitive functions. MDD's …

Smartphone allows capture of speech abnormalities associated with high risk of developing Parkinson's disease

J Rusz, J Hlavnička, T Tykalová… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although smartphone technology provides new opportunities for the recording of speech
samples in everyday life, its ability to capture prodromal speech impairment in persons with …

Tracking depression severity from audio and video based on speech articulatory coordination

JR Williamson, D Young, AA Nierenberg… - Computer Speech & …, 2019 - Elsevier
The ability to track depression severity over time using passive sensing of speech would
enable frequent and inexpensive monitoring, allowing rapid assessment of treatment …

Spectro-temporal sparsity characterization for dysarthric speech detection

I Kodrasi, H Bourlard - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To assist the clinical diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases that cause speech
dysarthria such as Parkinson's disease (PD), it is of paramount importance to craft robust …

Investigation of speech landmark patterns for depression detection

Z Huang, J Epps, D Joachim - IEEE transactions on affective …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The massive and growing burden imposed on modern society by depression has motivated
investigations into early detection through automated, scalable and non-invasive methods …

Detecting Parkinson's disease from wrist-worn accelerometry in the UK Biobank

JR Williamson, B Telfer, R Mullany, KE Friedl - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic movement disorder that produces a variety of
characteristic movement abnormalities. The ubiquity of wrist-worn accelerometry suggests a …

[PDF][PDF] Interpretable Objective Assessment of Dysarthric Speech Based on Deep Neural Networks.

M Tu, V Berisha, J Liss - Interspeech, 2017 - researchgate.net
Improved performance in speech applications using deep neural networks (DNNs) has
come at the expense of reduced model interpretability. For consumer applications this is not …

Language-independent approach for automatic computation of vowel articulation features in dysarthric speech assessment

Y Liu, N Penttilä, T Ihalainen, J Lintula… - … on Audio, Speech …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Imprecise vowel articulation can be observed in people with Parkinson's disease (PD).
Acoustic features measuring vowel articulation have been demonstrated to be effective …

Automatic Assessment of Parkinson's Disease Using Speech Representations of Phonation and Articulation

Y Liu, MK Reddy, N Penttilä, T Ihalainen… - … on Audio, Speech …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speech from people with Parkinson's disease (PD) are likely to be degraded on phonation,
articulation, and prosody. Motivated to describe articulation deficits comprehensively, we …