2 papers
cs.CL2026
Multilingual Detection of Alzheimer's Disease from Speech: A Cross-Linguistic Transfer Learning Approach
Nadine Yasser Abdelhalim, Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole Salomons
The development of multilingual Alzheimer's Disease Dementia (AD) detection models presents significant challenges due to the resource-intensive and time-consuming nature of langua…
eess.AS2025
WhisperD: Dementia Speech Recognition and Filler Word Detection with Whisper
Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nadine Abdelhalim, Nicole Salomons
Whisper fails to correctly transcribe dementia speech because persons with dementia (PwDs) often exhibit irregular speech patterns and disfluencies such as pauses, repetitions, and…