The use of telephone speech recordings for assessment and monitoring of cognitive function in elderly people

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 943-946

  Rapcan, Viliam ^a   D'Arcy, Shona ^a   Penard, Nils ^a   Robertson, Ian H ^a   Reilly, Richard B ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cognitive function; Remote assessment and monitoring; Speech analysis; Telephone recording

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE DECLINE; COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; ELDERLY PEOPLE; FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; REMOTE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING; SCREENING SYSTEM; TELEPHONE QUALITY; TELEPHONE SPEECH;

BRAIN; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450179594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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