5 papers
Multilingual Dysarthric Speech Assessment Using Universal Phone Recognition and Language-Specific Phonemic Contrast Modeling
Eunjung Yeo, Julie M. Liss, Visar Berisha +1
The growing prevalence of neurological disorders associated with dysarthria motivates the need for automated intelligibility assessment methods that are applicalbe across languages…
Advancing Automated Spatio-Semantic Analysis in Picture Description Using Language Models
Si-Ioi Ng, Pranav S. Ambadi, Kimberly D. Mueller +2
Current methods for automated assessment of cognitive-linguistic impairment via picture description often neglect the visual narrative path - the sequence and locations of elements…
A Speech Production Model for Radar: Connecting Speech Acoustics with Radar-Measured Vibrations
Isabella Lenz, Yu Rong, Daniel Bliss +2
Millimeter Wave (mmWave) radar has emerged as a promising modality for speech sensing, offering advantages over traditional microphones. Prior works have demonstrated that radar ca…
Automated Extraction of Spatio-Semantic Graphs for Identifying Cognitive Impairment
Si-Ioi Ng, Pranav S. Ambadi, Kimberly D. Mueller +2
Existing methods for analyzing linguistic content from picture descriptions for assessment of cognitive-linguistic impairment often overlook the participant's visual narrative path…
A Tutorial on Clinical Speech AI Development: From Data Collection to Model Validation
Si-Ioi Ng, Lingfeng Xu, Ingo Siegert +4
There has been a surge of interest in leveraging speech as a marker of health for a wide spectrum of conditions. The underlying premise is that any neurological, mental, or physica…