Analysis of Speech of People with Parkinson's Disease

Analysis of Speech of People with Parkinson's Disease
Author: Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3832543619

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The analysis of speech of people with Parkinson's disease is an interesting and highly relevant topic that has attracted the research community during several years. The advances in digital signal processing and pattern recognition have motivated the research community to work on the development of computational tools to perform automatic analysis of speech. Most of the contributions on this topic are focused on sustained phonation of vowels and only consider recordings of one language. This thesis addresses two problems considering recordings of sustained phonations of vowels and continuous speech signals: (1) the automatic classification of Parkinson's patients vs. healthy speakers, and (2) the prediction of the neurological state of the patients according to the motor section of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS). Recordings of three languages are considered: Spanish, German, and Czech. German and Czech data were provided by other researchers, and Spanish data were recorded in Medellin, Colombia, during the development of this work. Besides the classical approaches to assess pathological speech, a new method to model articulation deficits of Parkinson's patients is proposed. This new articulation modeling approach shows to be more accurate and robust than others to discriminate between Parkinson's patients and healthy speakers in the three considered languages.

Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech

Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech
Author: Juan I. Godino-Llorente
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2021-01-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030656543

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This book constitutes the revised and extended papers of the First Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech Workshop, AAPS 2019, held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in September 2019. The 6 full papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. They present recent research on the automatic assessment of parkinsonian speech from the point of view of such disciplines as machine learning, speech technology, phonetics, neurology, and speech therapy

An Acoustic Analysis of Speech Rate Control Procedures in Parkinson's Disease [microform]

An Acoustic Analysis of Speech Rate Control Procedures in Parkinson's Disease [microform]
Author: Lisa Marie Odlozinski
Publisher: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Total Pages: 133
Release: 1998
Genre:
ISBN: 9780612307384

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This study was designed to examine the effect of four rate control procedures on speech rate in Parkinson's Disease (PD) and normal subjects. Utterance duration of a target phrase across fast and slow speaking conditions was measured during the following rate control procedures: magnitude production, delayed auditory feedback, computerized rhythmic pacing, and metronome pacing. The main findings were that PD subjects produced a faster rate of speech than normals during the slowest speech conditions of magnitude production, thereby underestimating the scaling of their speech at the slowest end of the continuum. In addition, it was found that PD subjects were more variable than normals during the slowest speech rate conditions of each rate control procedure. Furthermore, during the visuomotor speech task of the computerized rhythmic pacing procedure, PD subjects produced more variable speech rates. These results appear to be in general agreement with previous studies of speech rate in patients with PD.

Automated Objective Speech Markers for Differential Diagnosis Between Parkinson's Disease and Atypical Parkinsonian Disorders

Automated Objective Speech Markers for Differential Diagnosis Between Parkinson's Disease and Atypical Parkinsonian Disorders
Author: Biswajit Das
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN:

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Speech disorder is an early and prominent manifestation of neurological disorders. Therefore, the breakdown of speech disorders and detecting underlying pathophysiology have invaluable importance to clinical practice. Speech disorder is commonly attributed to aging onset, however, the pattern is mostly distinct for neurogenic voice. Parkinsonism is one of the neurological disorder that refers to idiopathic Parkinson's Disease (PD) and Atypical Parkinsonian Syndromes (APS), such as Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). Differential diagnosis of latter disease groups is remains an challenging task due to similar symptoms at the early stages, while early diagnostic certainty is essential for the patient because of the diverging prognosis. Indeed, despite recent efforts, no validated objective speech marker is currently available to guide the clinician for the differential diagnosis. This thesis thus aims to design and define the speech markers that would provide deep insight into speech disorders caused by neurological diseases, and followed by differential diagnosis.Analysis of speech disorder demands at least a speech database by which pattern of speech abnormalities can be assessed. Speech database consisting PD and MSA-P neurological diseases is not available in French language. Thus development of a speech database (Voice4PD-MSA) from PD and MSA-P groups was one of the target of this thesis. While developing Voice4PD-MSA database, we explored CzechData database comprises of speech samples in Czech language for differential diagnosis.The automatic algorithm always in demand to quantify perceptual and visual observation to capture particular speech disorders. Clinically interpretable speech components are considered to capture speech abnormalities in respiration, vowel production, articulator movements, and prosody by objective methods from sustained vowel, word-initial consonants, diadochokinetic (DDK) tasks, and continuous speech. Imprecise vowel comprises deficits in vocal folds opening and closing, involuntary movements of articulator, hypernasality, tremor, and changes in vowel space area are observed to be important for differential diagnosis of MSA-P and PD patients. In imprecise obstruents, devoicing in voiced obstruents and burst in fricatives (anti-spirantization) are identified as distinctive speech markers for MSA-P. In addition, speech indexes related to the subsystem of speech production and dysarthria yield encouraging differentiation and disease specificity in disease groups. Given small amount of data, two-dimensional speech features are designed such that one of the disease group predominates in one speech dimension and consequently discriminate disease groups with good classification score.Early differential diagnosis was another critical objective of the current investigation. The present study observed some encouraging indications about early differential diagnosis exploring the trend of speech markers w.r.t. clinical signs. Thus we aspire that the presented methodology in this thesis would serve as a potential diagnosis tool in clinical practice and further inspire to develop automatic methods to investigate speech disorders in parkinsonism.