Acoustic Analysis of Pathologies

This series, which is aimed at speech scientists, biomedical engineers, speech pathologists, linguists, healthcare practitioners, and application developers, demonstrates how the latest advances in speech technology and text mining positively affect patient health care and, in a much broader sense, public health writ large. Topics include text mining of electronic health records/biomedical literature/social media posts and tweets; speech-enabled medical service robots in operating rooms and companion or assistive robots in long term care facilities; signal and acoustic modeling for early detection and successful intervention with speech deficits resulting from Parkinson's disease, Autism Spectrum disorder, cleft palate, intellectual disabilities, and neuro-motor impairments; hands-on clinical assessment of some of the latest speech technology and natural language processing software programs currently in use for handling autism and aphasia; empirical studies of speech technologies for voice reconstruction and enhancement, with a focus on speech synthesis technologies for individuals with vocal disabilities and statistical alaryngeal speech enhancement for laryngectomies; and computational bioacoustics for biodiversity assessment, pest population control, and monitoring the spread of disease transmitting insects that severely threaten both zoological and human populations.