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Voice Analysis for Neurological Disorder Recognition–A Systematic Review and Perspective on Emerging Trends

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Hecker, Pascal, Steckhan, Nico, Eyben, Florian, Schuller, Björn W., Arnrich, Bert·2022·Frontiers in Digital Health

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Quantifying neurological disorders from voice is a rapidly growing field of research and holds promise for unobtrusive and large-scale disorder monitoring. The data recording setup and data analysis pipelines are both crucial aspects to effectively obtain relevant information from participants. Therefore, we performed a systematic review to provide a high-level overview of practices across various neurological disorders and highlight emerging trends. PRISMA-based literature searches were conducted through PubMed, Web of Science, and IEEE Xplore to identify publications in which original (i.e., newly recorded) datasets were collected. Disorders of interest were psychiatric as well as neurodegenerative disorders, such as bipolar disorder, depression, and stress, as well as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's disease, and speech impairments (aphasia, dysarthria, and dysphonia). Of the 43 retrieved studies, Parkinson's disease is represented most prominently with 19 discovered datasets. Free speech and read speech tasks are most commonly used across disorders. Besides popular feature extraction toolkits, many studies utilise custom-built feature sets. Correlations of acoustic features with psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders are presented. In terms of analysis, statistical analysis for significance of individual features is commonly used, as well as predictive modeling approaches, especially with support vector machines and a small number of artificial neural networks. An emerging trend and recommendation for future studies is to collect data in everyday life to facilitate longitudinal data collection and to capture the behavior of participants more naturally. Another emerging trend is to record additional modalities to voice, which can potentially increase analytical performance.

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Authors
Hecker, P., Steckhan, N., Eyben, F., Schuller, B. W., & Arnrich, B.
Affiliations
  • Hasso Plattner Institute (DE)
  • University of Augsburg (DE)
Corresponding author
Hecker, Pascal
Venue
Frontiers in Digital Health
Published
2022-07-07
Volume
4
Pages
842301-842301
ISSN
2673-253X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4284679137
Cited by
78
References
99
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2026: 27 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 1
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1.72
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journal article
Language
en
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  • Frontiers in Digital Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • publish.UP (University of Potsdam) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
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  • OPUS (Augsburg University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Universität Potsdam (cc-by)
Funders
Universität Potsdam
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Voice and Speech Disorders
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Keywords
voice analysis, neurological disorders, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, depression, bipolar disorder, stress, aphasia, dysarthria, dysphonia, speech disorders, acoustic features, speech dataset, long-term monitoring, mental illness, neurodegenerative diseases

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