Evaluation of speech-based protocol for detection of early-stage dementia

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1692-1696

  Satt, Aharon ^a   Sorin, Alexander ^a   Toledo Ronen, Orith ^a   Barkan, Oren ^a,b   Kompatsiaris, Ioannis ^c   Kokonozi, Athina ^c   Tsolaki, Magda ^d  

^a IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Centre of Research and Technology   (Greece)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Dementia; MCI; Mild cognitive impairment; SVM; Vocal biomarkers; Vocal features; Voice based diagnosis

Indexed keywords

AUDIO RECORDINGS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; SPEECH; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEMENTIA; MCI; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTS; SVM; VOCAL FEATURES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84906239902     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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