On the design of automatic voice condition analysis systems. Part I: Review of concepts and an insight to the state of the art

JA Gómez-García, L Moro-Velázquez… - … Signal Processing and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This is the first of a two-part series devoted to review the current state of the art of automatic
voice condition analysis systems. The goal of this paper is to provide to the scientific …

Robust and complex approach of pathological speech signal analysis

J Mekyska, E Janousova, P Gomez-Vilda, Z Smekal… - Neurocomputing, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a study of the approaches in the state-of-the-art in the field of
pathological speech signal analysis with a special focus on parametrization techniques. It …

C2SI corpus: a database of speech disorder productions to assess intelligibility and quality of life in head and neck cancers

V Woisard, C Astésano, M Balaguer, J Farinas… - Language Resources …, 2021 - Springer
Within the framework of the Carcinologic Speech Severity Index (C2SI) INCa Project, we
collected a large database of French speech recordings aiming at validating Disorder …

Automatic prediction of speech intelligibility based on x-vectors in the context of head and neck cancer

S Quintas, J Mauclair, V Woisard… - 21st INTERSPEECH (2020 …, 2020 - hal.science
In the context of pathological speech, perceptual evaluation isstill the most widely used
method for intelligibility estimation. Despite being considered a staple in clinical settings, it …

Construction of an automatic score for the evaluation of speech disorders among patients treated for a cancer of the oral cavity or the oropharynx: The Carcinologic …

V Woisard, M Balaguer, C Fredouille, J Farinas… - Head & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Speech disorders impact quality of life for patients treated with oral cavity and
oropharynx cancers. However, there is a lack of uniform and applicable methods for …

Perceptual evaluation of dysphonic voices: can a training protocol lead to the development of perceptual categories?

A Ghio, S Dufour, A Wengler, G Pouchoulin, J Revis… - Journal of Voice, 2015 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to develop and test a training protocol for the perceptual
evaluation of dysphonia. A group of 38 inexperienced listeners participated in a three-phase …

Can we use speaker embeddings on spontaneous speech obtained from medical conversations to predict intelligibility?

S Quintas, M Balaguer, J Mauclair… - 2023 IEEE Automatic …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The automatic prediction of speech intelligibility is a recurrent problem in the context of
pathological speech. Despite recent developments, these systems are normally applied to …

Dysarthria in individuals with Parkinson's disease: a protocol for a binational, cross-sectional, case-controlled study in French and European Portuguese (FraLusoPark …

S Pinto, R Cardoso, J Sadat, I Guimarães, C Mercier… - BMJ open, 2016 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) have to deal with several aspects of
voice and speech decline and thus alteration of communication ability during the course of …

Correlates of vowel clarity in the spectrotemporal modulation domain: Application to speech impairment evaluation

A Marczyk, B O'Brien, P Tremblay, V Woisard… - The Journal of the …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This article reports on vowel clarity metrics based on spectrotemporal modulations of speech
signals. Motivated by previous findings on the relevance of modulation-based metrics for …

Effects of cognitive impairment on prosodic parameters of speech production planning in multiple sclerosis

C De Looze, N Moreau, L Renié, F Kelly… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cognitive impairment (CI) affects 40–65% of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). CI can
have a negative impact on a patient's everyday activities, such as engaging in …