System for automated speech and language analysis (SALSA)

Kyle Marek-Spartz; Benjamin Knoll; Robert Bill; Thomas Christie; Serguei Pakhomov

System for automated speech and language analysis (SALSA)

Kyle Marek-Spartz, Benjamin Knoll, Robert Bill, Thomas Christie, Serguei Pakhomov

Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems

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Abstract

SALSA automates cognitive test administration and scoring. These tests are used to characterize cognitive impairment resulting from neurodegenerative disease, traumatic brain injury, and drug toxicity; however, they are currently performed manually, limiting their utility for large clinical populations and longitudinal assessments. We present a fully automated, comprehensive system for collecting spoken test responses with mobile and telephony platforms, using an open-source automatic speech recognition engine (KALDI) to calculate a range of speech characteristics that may be useful in assessment of cognitive function.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2142-2143
Number of pages	2
Journal	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
State	Published - 2014
Event	15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Celebrating the Diversity of Spoken Languages, INTERSPEECH 2014 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: Sep 14 2014 → Sep 18 2014

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Cognitive testing
Speech recognition

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