Intelligent speech technologies for transcription, disease diagnosis, and medical equipment interactive control in smart hospitals: A review

J Zhang, J Wu, Y Qiu, A Song, W Li, X Li… - Computers in Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The growing and aging of the world population have driven the shortage of medical
resources in recent years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, the rapid …

[HTML][HTML] Pre-trained models for detection and severity level classification of dysarthria from speech

F Javanmardi, SR Kadiri, P Alku - Speech Communication, 2024 - Elsevier
Automatic detection and severity level classification of dysarthria from speech enables non-
invasive and effective diagnosis that helps clinical decisions about medication and therapy …

Quantitative Speech Assessment in Ataxia—Consensus Recommendations by the Ataxia Global Initiative Working Group on Digital-Motor Markers

AP Vogel, A Sobanska, A Gupta, G Vasco… - The Cerebellum, 2024 - Springer
Dysarthria is a common and debilitating symptom of many neurodegenerative diseases,
including those resulting in ataxia. Changes to speech lead to significant reductions in …

Wav2vec-based detection and severity level classification of dysarthria from speech

F Javanmardi, S Tirronen, M Kodali… - ICASSP 2023-2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic detection and severity level classification of dysarthria directly from acoustic
speech signals can be used as a tool in medical diagnosis. In this work, the pre-trained …

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 …

Exploring the impact of fine-tuning the wav2vec2 model in database-independent detection of dysarthric speech

F Javanmardi, SR Kadiri, P Alku - IEEE journal of biomedical …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many acoustic features and machine learning models have been studied to build automatic
detection systems to distinguish dysarthric speech from healthy speech. These systems can …

Classification of dysarthric speech according to the severity of impairment: an analysis of acoustic features

BA Al-Qatab, MB Mustafa - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is increasingly being applied as assistive
technology in the speech impaired community, for individuals with physical disabilities such …

Simulating dysarthric speech for training data augmentation in clinical speech applications

Y Jiao, M Tu, V Berisha, J Liss - 2018 IEEE international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Training machine learning algorithms for speech applications requires large, labeled
training data sets. This is problematic for clinical applications where obtaining such data is …

Automatic assessment of sentence-level dysarthria intelligibility using BLSTM

C Bhat, H Strik - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dysarthria is a motor speech impairment, often characterized by slow and slurred speech
that is generally incomprehensible by human listeners. An understanding of the intelligibility …

Dysarthric speech classification using glottal features computed from non-words, words and sentences

NN Prabhakera, P Alku - Interspeech, 2018 - research.aalto.fi
Dysarthria is a neuro-motor disorder resulting from the disruption of normal activity in speech
production leading to slow, slurred and imprecise (low intelligible) speech. Automatic …