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 …

The purpose of this literature review is to describe and discuss instrumental assessment
techniques of the velopharyngeal function in order to diagnose velopharyngeal disorders …

This paper evaluates the accuracy of different characterization methods for the automatic
detection of multiple speech disorders. The speech impairments considered include …

Speech signals may contain different paralinguistic aspects such as the presence of
pathologies that affect the proper communication capabilities of a speaker. Those speech …

The analysis of speech of people with Parkinson's disease is an interesting and highly
relevant topic that has attracted the research community during several years. The advances …

Background Cleft palate patients have inability to produce adequate velopharyngeal
closure, which results in hypernasal speech. In clinic, hypernasal speech is assessed …

Hypernasality refers to the perception of excessive nasal resonances in vowels and voiced
consonants. Existing speech processing based approaches concentrate only on the …

The automatic evaluation of CP (Cleft Plate) speech has various clinical applications. In this
work, automatic classification of hypernasality levels and detection of consonant omission …

Objectives: Evaluation of hypernasality requires extensive perceptual training by clinicians
and extending this training on a large scale internationally is untenable; this compounds the …

The hypernasality is one of the most typical characteristics of cleft palate (CP) speech. The
evaluation outcome of hypernasality grading decides the necessity of follow-up surgery …