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Parkinson's disease (PD) poses a growing global health challenge, with Bangladesh experiencing a notable rise in PD-related mortality. Early detection of PD remains particularly challenging in resource-constrained settings, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Riad Hossain , Muhammad Ashad Kabir , Arat Ibne Golam Mowla , Animesh Chandra Roy , Ranjit Kumar Ghosh

This work aims to tackle the Parkinson's disease (PD) detection problem from the speech signal in a bilingual setting by proposing an ad-hoc dual-head deep neural architecture for type-based binary classification. One head is specialized…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Moreno La Quatra , Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave , Marco Sabato Siniscalchi

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

Cognitive impairment (CI) is of growing public health concern, and early detection is vital for effective intervention. Speech has gained attention as a non-invasive and easily collectible biomarker for assessing cognitive decline.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Mostafa Shahin , Beena Ahmed , Julien Epps

As one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorders, Parkinson's disease (PD) has a significant impact on the fine motor skills of patients. The complex interplay of different articulators during speech production and realization of…

Automatic pathological speech detection approaches yield promising results in identifying various pathologies. These approaches are typically designed and evaluated for phonetically-controlled speech scenarios, where speakers are prompted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Shakeel A. Sheikh , Ina Kodrasi

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that, in addition to directly impairing functional mobility, is frequently associated with vocal impairments such as hypophonia and dysarthria, which typically manifest in…

Automatic detection of Parkinson's disease (PD) from speech is a promising non-invasive diagnostic tool, but it raises significant privacy concerns. Speaker anonymization mitigates these risks, but it may suppress the pathological…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Carlos Franzreb , Francisco Teixeira , Ben Luks , Sebastian Möller , Alberto Abad

Zero-shot audio classification aims to recognize and classify a sound class that the model has never seen during training. This paper presents a novel approach for zero-shot audio classification using automatically generated sound attribute…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Xuenan Xu , Pingyue Zhang , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Mengyue Wu

Speech-based Parkinson's disease (PD) detection has gained attention for its automated, cost-effective, and non-intrusive nature. As research studies usually rely on data from diagnostic-oriented speech tasks, this work explores the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Terry Yi Zhong , Esther Janse , Cristian Tejedor-Garcia , Louis ten Bosch , Martha Larson

Speech disorders often occur at the early stage of Parkinson's disease (PD). The speech impairments could be indicators of the disorder for early diagnosis, while motor symptoms are not obvious. In this study, we constructed a new speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Hao Fang , Chen Gong , Chen Zhang , Yanan Sui , Luming Li

Diagnosis and therapeutic effect assessment of Parkinson disease based on voice data are very important,but its few-shot learning problem is challenging.Although deep learning is good at automatic feature extraction, it suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Yongming Li , Lang Zhou , Lingyun Qin , Yuwei Zeng , Yuchuan Liu , Yan Lei , Pin Wang , Fan Li

This paper deals with a complex acoustic analysis of phonation in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) with a special focus on estimation of disease progress that is described by 7 different clinical scales ,e. g. Unified Parkinson's…

Perceptual voice quality dimensions describe key characteristics of atypical speech and other speech modulations. Here we develop and evaluate voice quality models for seven voice and speech dimensions (intelligibility, imprecise…

Imprecise vowel articulation can be observed in people with Parkinson's disease (PD). Acoustic features measuring vowel articulation have been demonstrated to be effective indicators of PD in its assessment. Standard clinical vowel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-18 Yuanyuan Liu , Nelly Penttilä , Tiina Ihalainen , Juulia Lintula , Rachel Convey , Okko Räsänen

The risk of Parkinson's disease (PD) is extremely serious, and PD speech recognition is an effective method of diagnosis nowadays. However, due to the influence of the disease stage, corpus, and other factors on data collection, the ability…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yongming Li , Chengyu Liu , Pin Wang , Hehua Zhang , Anhai Wei

In this paper, we envision a web-based framework that can help anyone, anywhere around the world record a short speech task, and analyze the recorded data to screen for Parkinson's disease (PD). We collected data from 726 unique…

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative disorder known for its impact on motor neurons, causing symptoms like tremors, stiffness, and gait difficulties. This study explores the potential of vocal feature alterations in PD…

Introduction: Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia in which early diagnosis plays a major rule in the quality of treatment. Among new works in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, there are many of them analyzing the voice stream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 S. Soroush Haj Zargarbashi , Bagher Babaali

Speech production is a complex phenomenon, wherein the brain orchestrates a sequence of processes involving thought processing, motor planning, and the execution of articulatory movements. However, this intricate execution of various…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Shakeel Ahmad Sheikh