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Using Speech Analytics to Measure Forced Vital Capacity
Measuring respiratory function is important. It’s used to inform COPD or asthma diagnosis, track disease progression, and help clinicians make ventilatory support decisions in diseases that impact respiration, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). These...
Validation of digital speech biomarkers of cognition: Results from AAIC 2021
Researchers from Aural Analytics, Inc., Arizona State University, and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health presented new research connecting speech to dementia at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) on July 26-30,...
Repeatable, Fit-for-Purpose Clinical Speech Analytics: Mitigating the replication crisis in clinical speech studies
As the pandemic forces healthcare and pharmaceutical clinical trials to adopt new modes of engaging with patients, the value of digital biomarkers and digital diagnostics is skyrocketing. Speech analytics, in particular, has received significant attention because of...
Real-word speech-based endpoints enable sensitive neurological disease tracking
Without question, one of the most challenging problems in neurodegenerative diseases is the ability to identify the presence of early brain changes, especially before clinical symptoms appear. This ability is key to developing and testing neuroprotective or even...
Making Clinical-grade Speech Analytics Ubiquitous
There are now over 7 billion people on planet earth and every time they speak, it says something about their health. At Aural Analytics, we have a mission to tap into this signal-rich data stream and make clinically-relevant insights available to the scientific...
Predicting Migraine Attacks Using Speech Analytics
Article by Todd J. Schwedt, M.D. The opinions expressed below are his own and are not official positions of the Mayo Clinic. For many of us who experience migraine, the symptoms are familiar. Before the pain begins, we notice warning signs - i.e. we become more...
Interview with Movement Disorders Specialist, John Caviness, M.D.
John N. Caviness, M.D. Recently, I had the great pleasure of sitting down with neurologist and internationally recognized movement disorders specialist Dr. John Caviness to get his take on the use of vocal biomarkers in the early detection and progression of...
Vocal Biomarkers: Fishing for Signal in the Murky Speech Stream
So, how can we rely on speech analytics as a window to brain health in disease when the way a person speaks is influenced by all sorts of mundane and benign other things? For example: You just woke up and your voice is creakyYou have a head cold and your speech sounds...
Vocal Biomarkers: Tempering the AI Hype
We are in the midst of a voice tech tsunami, with never-before-seen capabilities in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and off-the-shelf speech analysis tools available to everyone. Freely-available software packages for measuring common features from speech are...
Digital Biomarkers: The Newfound Bounty of Speech Analytics
Speaking our thoughts and ideas seems easy to do, but if you look closer you’ll find that complex neural networks throughout the brain and body drive speech production. One has to first have an idea or thought they want to share, then select and order the words they...