Identification of Hypokinetic Dysarthria Using Acoustic Analysis of Poem Recitation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09880v1
• Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 11:45:01 GMT
• Title: Identification of Hypokinetic Dysarthria Using Acoustic Analysis of Poem Recitation
• Authors: Jan Mucha, Zoltan Galaz, Jiri Mekyska, Tomas Kiska, Vojtech Zvoncak, Zdenek Smekal, Ilona Eliasova, Martina Mrackova, Milena Kostalova, Irena Rektorova, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy and Jesus B. Alonso-Hernandez
• Abstract summary: Up to 90 % of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) suffer from hypokinetic dysarthria (HD) We analysed the power of conventional speech features imprecise articulation, dysprosody, speech dysfluency and speech quality deterioration extracted from a specialized poem recitation task to discriminate HD.
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• Abstract: Up to 90 % of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) suffer from hypokinetic dysarthria (HD). In this work, we analysed the power of conventional speech features quantifying imprecise articulation, dysprosody, speech dysfluency and speech quality deterioration extracted from a specialized poem recitation task to discriminate dysarthric and healthy speech. For this purpose, 152 speakers (53 healthy speakers, 99 PD patients) were examined. Only mildly strong correlation between speech features and clinical status of the speakers was observed. In the case of univariate classification analysis, sensitivity of 62.63% (imprecise articulation), 61.62% (dysprosody), 71.72% (speech dysfluency) and 59.60% (speech quality deterioration) was achieved. Multivariate classification analysis improved the classification performance. Sensitivity of 83.42% using only two features describing imprecise articulation and speech quality deterioration in HD was achieved. We showed the promising potential of the selected speech features and especially the use of poem recitation task to quantify and identify HD in PD.

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