Speech as a means of monitoring cognitive function of elderly speakers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2230-2233

  D'Arcy, Shona ^a   Rapcan, Viliam ^a   Penard, Nils ^b   Morris, Margaret E ^c   Robertson, Ian H ^b   Reilly, Richard B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive decline; Elderly; Temporal features

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLINICAL MEASURE; COGNITIVE DECLINE; COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS; COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; ELDERLY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; TEMPORAL FEATURES; TEMPORAL LANGUAGE;

BRAIN;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867223921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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