Parkinson’s disease produces several motor symptoms, including different speech impairments that are known as hypokinetic dysarthria. Symptoms associated to dysarthria affect different dimensions of speech such as phonation, articulation, prosody, …
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) results from the progressive loss of neurons in the hippocampus, which affects the capability to produce coherent language. It affects lexical, grammatical, and semantic processes as well as speech fluency. This paper …
Speech signals may contain different paralinguistic aspects such as the presence of pathologies that affect the proper communication capabilities of a speaker. Those speech disorders have different origin depending on the type of the disease. For …
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the presence of different motor impairments. Information from speech, handwriting, and gait signals have been considered to evaluate the neurological state of the patients. On the …
Virtual education has become one of the tools most widely used by students at all educational levels, not just because of its convenience and flexibility, but also because it can expand educational coverage. All these benefits also bring along …
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects the language production and thinking capabilities of patients. The integrity of the brain is destroyed over time by interruptions in the interactions between neuron …
This paper proposes a methodology for automatic detection of speech disorders in Cochlear Implant users by implementing a multi-channel Convolutional Neural Network. The model is fed with a 2-channel input which consists of two spectrograms computed …
This paper focuses on selecting features that can best represent the pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD) dysarthria. PD dysarthria has often been the subject of feature selection and classification experiments, but rarely have the selected …