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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…

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive decline and memory loss. Early detection of AD is crucial for effective intervention and treatment. In this paper, we propose a novel approach…

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Depression commonly co-occurs with neurodegenerative disorders like Multiple Sclerosis (MS), yet the potential of speech-based Artificial Intelligence for detecting depression in such contexts remains unexplored. This study examines the…

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This paper enhances dysarthric and dysphonic speech recognition by fine-tuning pretrained automatic speech recognition (ASR) models on the 2023-10-05 data package of the Speech Accessibility Project (SAP), which contains the speech of 253…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Xiuwen Zheng , Bornali Phukon , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Parkinson's disease (PD) has been found to affect 1 out of every 1000 people, being more inclined towards the population above 60 years. Leveraging wearable-systems to find accurate biomarkers for diagnosis has become the need of the hour,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Poojaa C , John Sahaya Rani Alex

This paper addresses the problem of automatic detection of voice pathologies directly from the speech signal. For this, we investigate the use of the glottal source estimation as a means to detect voice disorders. Three sets of features are…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Thomas Drugman , Thomas Dubuisson , Thierry Dutoit

This paper presents a macroscopic approach to automatic detection of speech sound disorder (SSD) in child speech. Typically, SSD is manifested by persistent articulation and phonological errors on specific phonemes in the language. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Si-Ioi Ng , Cymie Wing-Yee Ng , Jiarui Wang , Tan Lee

The screening of Parkinson's Disease (PD) through speech is hindered by a notable lack of publicly available datasets in different languages. This fact limits the reproducibility and further exploration of existing research. To address this…

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims to clone any unseen speaker's voice without adaptation parameters. By quantizing speech waveform into discrete acoustic tokens and modeling these tokens with the language model, recent language…

Patients with diabetes are at increased risk of comorbid depression or anxiety, complicating their management. This study evaluated the performance of large language models (LLMs) in detecting these symptoms from secure patient messages. We…

Parkinson's disease (PD) presents a growing global challenge, affecting over 10 million individuals, with prevalence expected to double by 2040. Early diagnosis remains difficult due to the late emergence of motor symptoms and limitations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Arianna Francesconi , Donato Cappetta , Fabio Rebecchi , Paolo Soda , Valerio Guarrasi , Rosa Sicilia

Developing objective methods for assessing the severity of Parkinson's disease (PD) is crucial for improving the diagnosis and treatment. This study proposes two sets of novel features derived from the single frequency filtering (SFF)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri , Manila Kodali , Paavo Alku

Zero-shot keyphrase extraction aims to build a keyphrase extractor without training by human-annotated data, which is challenging due to the limited human intervention involved. Challenging but worthwhile, zero-shot setting efficiently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Mingyang Song , Xuelian Geng , Songfang Yao , Shilong Lu , Yi Feng , Liping Jing

We propose a novel zero-shot approach for keypoint detection on 3D shapes. Point-level reasoning on visual data is challenging as it requires precise localization capability, posing problems even for powerful models like DINO or CLIP.…

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We evaluate cognitive impairment (CI) classification from transcripts of speech in English, Slovene, and Korean. We compare zero-shot large language models (LLMs) used as direct classifiers under three input settings -- transcript-only,…

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Recently, zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems, capable of synthesizing any speaker's voice from a short audio prompt, have made rapid advancements. However, the quality of the generated speech significantly deteriorates when the audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Xiaofei Wang , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Manthan Thakker , Hemin Yang , Zirun Zhu , Min Tang , Yufei Xia , Jinzhu Li , Sheng Zhao , Jinyu Li , Naoyuki Kanda

In this paper, we study zero-shot learning in audio classification through factored linear and nonlinear acoustic-semantic projections between audio instances and sound classes. Zero-shot learning in audio classification refers to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Huang Xie , Okko Räsänen , Tuomas Virtanen

Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the major public health problems in the world. It is a well-known fact that around one million people suffer from Parkinson's disease in the United States whereas the number of people suffering from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Kamal Nayan Reddy Challa , Venkata Sasank Pagolu , Ganapati Panda , Babita Majhi

The current body of research on Parkinson's disease (PD) screening, monitoring, and management has evolved along two largely independent trajectories. The first research community focuses on multimodal sensing of PD-related biomarkers using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Hassan Hizeh , Rim Chighri , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Mohamed A. Bahloul , Ali Muqaibel , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Several machine learning algorithms have been developed for the prediction of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (ADRD) from spontaneous speech. However, none of these algorithms have been translated for the prediction of broader…