Automated Cross-language Intelligibility Analysis of Parkinson’s Disease Patients Using Speech Recognition Technologies (P19-2)
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| Challenge: | PD is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimers disease . speech impairments are one of the earliest manifestations in PD patients . |
| Approach: | They propose to analyze the speech signals of PD patients and healthy control subjects in three different languages: German, Spanish, and Czech. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can discriminate between PD patients and HC subjects even when the language used for train and test is different. |
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