Invited Speaker | |
 | Isabel TrancosoSenior ResearcherSpoken Language Systems Lab INESC-ID Lisboa , Portugal |
| Speech – a health biomarker Abstract The potential of speech as a biomarker for health has been realized for diseases affecting respiratory organs, such as the common Cold, or Obstructive Sleep Apnea, for mood disorders such as Depression, and Bipolar Disease, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Huntington’s disease. The recent progress achieved with ML methods trained with lab data recorded in very controlled conditions has been impressive, but it also raises questions of robustness and privacy: how do these methods scale to in-the-wild data? What is their dependence on language and demographic factors? How can diagnosis be performed preserving the privacy of the speaker? I will conclude with a vision of speech analysis being as common as a blood test for diagnosis and monitoring of speech affecting diseases. |