The INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge provides for the first time a unified test-bed
for ‘perceived’speaker traits: Personality in the five OCEAN personality dimensions, …

This paper compares two approaches of automatic age and gender classification with 7
classes. The first approach are Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) with universal background …

A new software for modeling pathological speech signals is presented in this paper. The
software is called NeuroSpeech. This software enables the analysis of pathological speech …

70% to 90% of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) show an affected voice. Various studies
revealed, that voice and prosody is one of the earliest indicators of PD. The issue of this …

The INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge aimed at a unified test-bed for perceived
speaker traits – the first challenge of this kind: personality in the five OCEAN personality …

Speech of children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) is sometimes still disordered even after
adequate surgical and nonsurgical therapies. Such speech shows complex articulation …

Articulation and phonation is affected in 70% to 90% of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD).
This study focuses on the question whether speech carries information about 1. PD being …

OBJECTIVE: One aspect of voice and speech evaluation after laryngeal cancer is acoustic
analysis. Perceptual evaluation by expert raters is a standard in the clinical environment for …

This paper empirically investigates the influence of different data splits and splitting strategies
on the performance of dysfluency detection systems. For this, we perform experiments …

In earlier studies, we employed a large prosodic feature vector to assess the quality of L2
learner’s utterances with respect to sentence melody and rhythm. In this paper, we combine …