New computer aided device for real time analysis of speech of people with Parkinson's disease

Revista Facultad de Ingenieria

Volumn , Issue 72, 2014, Pages 87-103

  Correa, Juan Camilo Vásquez ^a   Arroyave, Juan Rafael Orozco ^a,b   Arias Londoño, Julián David ^a   Bonilla, Jesús Francisco Vargas ^a   Nöth, Elmar ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Jitter; Nonlinear dynamics; Parkinson's disease; Pitch; Portable device; Real time speech assessment; Shimmer; Vocal space area

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906777146     PISSN: 01206230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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