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Detecting medical conditions from speech acoustics is fundamentally a weakly-supervised learning problem: a single, often noisy, session-level label must be linked to nuanced patterns within a long, complex audio recording. This task is…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xingyuan Li , Mengyue Wu

Automated respiratory sound classification faces practical challenges from background noise and insufficient denoising in existing systems. We propose Adaptive Differential Denoising network, that integrates noise suppression and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Gaoyang Dong , Zhicheng Zhang , Ping Sun , Minghui Zhang

This study addresses unsupervised subword modeling, i.e., learning acoustic feature representations that can distinguish between subword units of a language. We propose a two-stage learning framework that combines self-supervised learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Siyuan Feng , Odette Scharenborg

We previously introduced a training-free method for dysarthria severity assessment based on d-prime separability of phonological feature subspaces in frozen self-supervised speech representations, validated on 890 speakers across 5…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Bernard Muller , Antonio Armando Ortiz Barrañón , LaVonne Roberts

We present AFEN (Audio Feature Ensemble Learning), a model that leverages Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and XGBoost in an ensemble learning fashion to perform state-of-the-art audio classification for a range of respiratory diseases.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Rahul Nadkarni , Emmanouil Nikolakakis , Razvan Marinescu

This article describes a system for analyzing acoustic data to assist in the diagnosis and classification of children's speech sound disorders (SSDs) using a computer. The analysis concentrated on identifying and categorizing four distinct…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Yao-Ming Kuo , Shanq-Jang Ruan , Yu-Chin Chen , Ya-Wen Tu

Suicide remains a public health challenge, necessitating improved detection methods to facilitate timely intervention and treatment. This systematic review evaluates the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Ambre Marie , Marine Garnier , Thomas Bertin , Laura Machart , Guillaume Dardenne , Gwenolé Quellec , Sofian Berrouiguet

Intelligent systems are transforming the world, as well as our healthcare system. We propose a deep learning-based cough sound classification model that can distinguish between children with healthy versus pathological coughs such as…

This thesis focuses on dealing with the task of acoustic scene classification (ASC), and then applied the techniques developed for ASC to a real-life application of detecting respiratory disease. To deal with ASC challenges, this thesis…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Lam Pham

Musical instrument classification, a key area in Music Information Retrieval, has gained considerable interest due to its applications in education, digital music production, and consumer media. Recent advances in machine learning,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Joanikij Chulev

Automatic speaker verification, like every other biometric system, is vulnerable to spoofing attacks. Using only a few minutes of recorded voice of a genuine client of a speaker verification system, attackers can develop a variety of…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Balamurali BT , Kin Wah Edward Lin , Simon Lui , Jer-Ming Chen , Dorien Herremans

Data augmentation is conventionally used to inject robustness in Speaker Verification systems. Several recently organized challenges focus on handling novel acoustic environments. Deep learning based speech enhancement is a modern solution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Saurabh Kataria , Phani Sankar Nidadavolu , Jesús Villalba , Najim Dehak

Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled diagnostics in maxillofacial pathology require structured, high-quality multimodal datasets. However, existing resources provide limited ameloblastoma coverage and lack the format consistency needed for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Ajo Babu George , Anna Mariam John , Athul Anoop , Balu Bhasuran

Automated detection of voice disorders with computational methods is a recent research area in the medical domain since it requires a rigorous endoscopy for the accurate diagnosis. Efficient screening methods are required for the diagnosis…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-06 Vibhuti Gupta

Depression is a common and serious mood disorder that negatively affects the patient's capacity of functioning normally in daily tasks. Speech is proven to be a vigorous tool in depression diagnosis. Research in psychiatry concentrated on…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Muhammad Muzammel , Hanan Salam , Yann Hoffmann , Mohamed Chetouani , Alice Othmani

Advancements in spoken language technologies for neurodegenerative speech disorders are crucial for meeting both clinical and technological needs. This overview paper is vital for advancing the field, as it presents a comprehensive review…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Shakeel A. Sheikh , Md. Sahidullah , Ina Kodrasi

In this paper, we address the problem of speaker verification in conditions unseen or unknown during development. A standard method for speaker verification consists of extracting speaker embeddings with a deep neural network and processing…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Luciana Ferrer , Mitchell McLaren , Niko Brummer

More than 90% of the Parkinson Disease (PD) patients suffer from vocal disorders. Speech impairment is already indicator of PD. This study focuses on PD diagnosis through voiceprint features. In this paper, a method based on Deep Neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Zhijing Xu , Juan Wang , Ying Zhang , Xiangjian He

In this article a DNN-based system for detection of three common voice disorders (vocal nodules, polyps and cysts; laryngeal neoplasm; unilateral vocal paralysis) is presented. The input to the algorithm is (at least 3-second long) audio…

In this paper, we propose an anomaly detection algorithm for machine sounds with a deep complex network trained by self-supervision. Using the fact that phase continuity information is crucial for detecting abnormalities in time-series…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Miseul Kim , Minh Tri Ho , Hong-Goo Kang