Speech and Mild Cognitive Impairment detection
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2019/10/0050/000412Keywords:
Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, speech analysisAbstract
It is of great importance to detect objective markers that can enable the early and fast identification of individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) from healthy individuals to inform patient care, family, and treatment planning. Connected speech productions can offer such markers. This study analyses recordings from picture description tasks by Swedish individuals with MCI and healthy control individuals (HC) and shows that voice quality, periodicity, and speech rate distinguish individuals with MCI from HC.
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