Autism Detection in Speech - A Survey

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12880v1
• Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:18:18 GMT
• Title: Autism Detection in Speech - A Survey
• Authors: Nadine Probol and Margot Mieskes
• Abstract summary: We look at linguistic, prosodic and acoustic cues that could indicate autism. We especially look at observations such as verbal and semantic fluency, prosodic features, but also disfluencies and speaking rate. We conclude, while there already is a lot of research, female patients seem to be severely under-researched.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: There has been a range of studies of how autism is displayed in voice, speech, and language. We analyse studies from the biomedical, as well as the psychological domain, but also from the NLP domain in order to find linguistic, prosodic and acoustic cues that could indicate autism. Our survey looks at all three domains. We define autism and which comorbidities might influence the correct detection of the disorder. We especially look at observations such as verbal and semantic fluency, prosodic features, but also disfluencies and speaking rate. We also show word-based approaches and describe machine learning and transformer-based approaches both on the audio data as well as the transcripts. Lastly, we conclude, while there already is a lot of research, female patients seem to be severely under-researched. Also, most NLP research focuses on traditional machine learning methods instead of transformers which could be beneficial in this context. Additionally, we were unable to find research combining both features from audio and transcripts.

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