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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
