Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that develops for years before
clinical manifestation, while mild cognitive impairment is clinically considered as a …

In this study we deal with the three sub-challenges of the Interspeech ComParE Challenge
2017, where the goal is to identify child-directed speech, speakers having a cold, and …

Automatically determining speaker emotions in human speech is a frequently studied task,
where various techniques have been employed over the years. An efficient method is to …

In the area of computational paralinguistics, there is a growing need for general techniques
that can be applied in a variety of tasks, and which can be easily realized using standard …

The standard approach for handling computational paralinguistic speech tasks is to extract
several thousand utterance-level features from the speech excerpts, and use machine …

In this paper, we present a computational paralinguistic method for assessing whether a
person has an upper respiratory tract infection (ie cold) using their speech. Having a system …

Screening a cold may be beneficial in the sense of avoiding the propagation of it. In this
study, we present a technique for classifying subjects having a cold by using their speech. In …

The automatic detection of conflict situations from human speech has several straightforward
applications such as the surveillance of public spaces, providing feedback about employees …

Over past few years, there has been an increasing need to extract nonlinguistic information
from audio sources. This trend has created a new area in speech technology known as …

The ability to discern an individual's level of sincerity varies from person to person and
across cultures. Sincerity is typically a key indication of personality traits such as …