arXiv:2606. 19797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dysarthric speech recognition is crucial for facilitating effective communication among individuals with dysarthria.
The paper evaluates whether audio‑language models can use multimodal clinical context to improve dysarthric speech recognition. Using a benchmark built on the Speech Accessibility Project dataset, the authors test diagnosis labels, clinician ratings, and detailed clinical descriptions as prompts for nine models. They find that these prompts yield negligible or negative effects on word error rate, though fine‑tuning with LoRA and mixed prompt formats reduces WER by 52% and benefits certain subgroups such as Down syndrome and mild‑severity speakers.
The paper evaluates pre‑trained speech embeddings from four state‑of‑the‑art speech foundation models for cross‑lingual Parkinson's disease severity assessment. Experiments span three datasets in zero‑shot and k‑shot settings, showing that these embeddings can transfer meaningfully across languages, though performance varies with dataset characteristics, preprocessing, and adaptation strategy. Misclassifications linked to inter‑speaker variability and atypical speech patterns underscore the need for more robust feature extraction, modeling, and explainability to support reliable clinical insights.
arXiv:2603. 15988v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dysarthric speech quality assessment (DSQA) is critical for clinical diagnostics and inclusive speech technologies.
arXiv:2602.08696v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dysarthric speech recognition is limited by high speaker variability and scarce labeled data. Existing synthesis methods often couple speaker...
The study evaluates seven parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning (PEFT) methods—LoRA, QLoRA, AdaLoRA, DoRA, LoHA, VeRA, and VB‑LoRA—on two ASR back‑ends (Whisper‑large‑v3 and Qwen3‑ASR‑1.7B) for a single post‑stroke Hungarian male speaker with severe dysarthria. Attention‑projection adapters consistently lower character error rates (CER) on both models, with LoRA emerging as the simplest and most effective choice; QLoRA performs worse and offers no memory advantage at this scale. Full fine‑tuning yields the lowest CER, but a 115 MB LoRA that also adapts feed‑forward blocks achieves comparable accuracy with only 3.7 % of the per‑patient storage, and a 5‑minute enrollment audio captures nearly half of the zero‑shot‑to‑30‑minute CER improvement. whyItMatters":"The paper demonstrates that lightweight PEFT adapters can substantially improve dysarthric ASR performance while keeping storage and computational costs low, offering a practical path for personalized speech recognition in clinical settings."
arXiv:2606. 09271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that frequently causes speech impairments associated with hypokinetic dysarthria.
arXiv:2606. 18645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dysarthria is a speech disorder marked by reduced intelligibility and communicative effectiveness.
arXiv:2608. 08976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder.
arXiv:2606. 30646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech recruits the same executive, attentional, and working memory processes underlying instrumental activities of daily living, or IADLs, providing a non-invasive proxy for cognitive assessment.
arXiv:2606. 17826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) in non-English clinical settings is challenged by multiscript variability, where the same term may appear in multiple valid orthographic forms.
arXiv:2606. 14788v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Voice-based screening offers a scalable and non-invasive way to assess neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD), but their staging remains challenging due to the difficulty of integrating heterogeneous data.