This perspective article explores the challenges and potential of using speech as a biomarker in clinical settings, particularly when constrained by the small clinical datasets typically available in such contexts. We contend that by integrating insights
In speech therapy, it can be used to help individuals with speech disorders such as stuttering or dysarthria improve their communication abilities by modifying their prosody. In text-to-speech synthesis, it can be used to produce more natural and expressive speech by adding appropriate prosodic ...
For AD databases, several key datasets are noteworthy. TheTalkbank DementiaBank’s Pitt Corpus29includes speech recordings from individuals diagnosed with probable or possible AD, MCI, memory impairments, vascular dementia, as well as control subjects. TheSpeechDx30initiative aims to develop speech-base...
Creating the Body To create the body of a speech, start with your specific purpose, which is the goal of your speech, and your central idea, which is the key concept that you want to get across to your audience. Suppose you hear a mews report about a charity that has been ripping off...
and point out their flaws, and stop them from wreaking havoc, and... I was burning out, and I didn't know it. I had to take about two years of counseling, therapy, learning to go to the gym — things I'd just never done — just to be able to get back to doing this work. ...