Detecting Vocal Fatigue with Neural Embeddings.

Vocal fatigue refers to the feeling of tiredness and weakness of voice due to extended utilization. This paper investigates the effectiveness of neural embeddings for the detection of vocal fatigue. We compare x-vectors, ECAPA-TDNN, and wav2vec 2.

Towards an automatic evaluation of the dysarthria level of patients with Parkinson's disease.

Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurological disorder that produces motor and non-motor impairments. The evaluation of motor symptoms is currently performed following the third section of the Movement Disorder Society - Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS-III); however, only one item of that scale is related to speech impairments. It is necessary to develop a specific scale such that considers those aspects related to speech impairments of the patients.

Speech Production Quality of Cochlear Implant Users with Respect to Duration and Onset of Hearing Loss.

Purpose: To assess whether postlingual onset and shorter duration of deafness before cochlear implant (CI) provision predict higher speech intelligibility results of CI users.

Methods: For an objective judgement of speech intelligibility, we used an automatic speech recognition system computing the word recognition rate (WR) of 50 adult CI users and 50 age-matched control individuals. All subjects were recorded reading a standardized text.

[Speech Ability and Psychological Outcome After Treatment of Oral Cancer].

Background: In recent years interactions between surgical treatment of oral carcinoma and incidence of anxiety or depression have become a subject of discussions. This prospective study is a comparison between the extent of loss of speech intelligibility and presence of depressive symptoms or anxiety as a result of oral carcinoma.

Material And Methods: One year after surgical therapy for oral carcinoma, 90 patients of an average age of 60±12 years were examined.