Speech technology for healthcare: Opportunities, challenges, and state of the art

S Latif, J Qadir, A Qayyum, M Usama… - IEEE Reviews in …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speech technology is not appropriately explored even though modern advances in speech
technology—especially those driven by deep learning (DL) technology—offer …

The detection of Parkinson's disease from speech using voice source information

NP Narendra, B Schuller, P Alku - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Developing automatic methods to detect Parkinson's disease (PD) from speech has
attracted increasing interest as these techniques can potentially be used in telemonitoring …

A comparison of acoustic and linguistics methodologies for Alzheimer's dementia recognition

N Cummins, Y Pan, Z Ren, J Fritsch… - Interspeech …, 2020 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
In the light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the need for remote digital health assessment
tools is greater than ever. This statement is especially pertinent for elderly and vulnerable …

Depression detection in speech using transformer and parallel convolutional neural networks

F Yin, J Du, X Xu, L Zhao - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
As a common mental disorder, depression becomes a major threat to human health and
may even heavily influence one's daily life. Considering this background, it is necessary to …

Glottal source information for pathological voice detection

NP Narendra, P Alku - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic methods for the detection of pathological voice from healthy speech can be
considered as potential clinical tools for medical treatment. This study investigates the …

Gender bias in depression detection using audio features

A Bailey, MD Plumbley - 2021 29th European Signal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Depression is a large-scale mental health problem and a challenging area for machine
learning researchers in detection of depression. Datasets such as Distress Analysis …

[HTML][HTML] A step towards preserving speakers' identity while detecting depression via speaker disentanglement

V Ravi, J Wang, J Flint, A Alwan - Interspeech, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Preserving a patient's identity is a challenge for automatic, speech-based diagnosis of
mental health disorders. In this paper, we address this issue by proposing adversarial …

Fraug: A frame rate based data augmentation method for depression detection from speech signals

V Ravi, J Wang, J Flint, A Alwan - ICASSP 2022-2022 IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a data augmentation method is proposed for depression detection from speech
signals. Samples for data augmentation were created by changing the frame-width and the …

[HTML][HTML] Non-uniform speaker disentanglement for depression detection from raw speech signals

J Wang, V Ravi, A Alwan - Interspeech, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
While speech-based depression detection methods that use speaker-identity features, such
as speaker embeddings, are popular, they often compromise patient privacy. To address this …

Approximating the mental lexicon from clinical interviews as a support tool for depression detection

E Villatoro-Tello, G Ramírez-de-la-Rosa… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Depression disorder is one of the major causes of disability in the world that can lead to
tragic outcomes. In this paper, we propose a method for using an approximation to a mental …