In a continued effort to catch neurodegenerative diseases early, researchers directed machine learning models to see if they could 'hear' Parkinson's disease in patients' voices. "Our findings suggest ...

For individuals with Parkinson’s, one of the most devastating effects of the incurable neurological condition is having their voices slowly fall silent. “Initially a patient might talk very softly,” ...

Listening to people with Parkinson's disease made an automatic speech recognizer 30-percent more accurate, according to a new study. As Mark Hasegawa-Johnson combed through data from his latest ...

Researchers estimate that 89% of people with Parkinson's disease (PD) have speech and voice disorders including disorders of laryngeal, respiratory and articulatory function. Despite the high ...

Some people could finish a whole sentence in the time it takes Jackie Hunt Christensen to speak a single word. Each of her words stretches out like a recording played at slow speed but without that ...

The Washburn University class taught physical therapist assistant students a unique way to help patients living with ...

Belgian biopharma company UCB has tapped customer engagement company Verint Systems to create an app for patients with Parkinson's disease. The app is called PD Coach and includes an AI assistant ...

When Pat Dunstan was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, never in her wildest dreams did she imagine that her journey would lead to singing in a choir at Yankee Stadium before thousands of people. But ...

The Speech Accessibility Project is a research initiative to make voice recognition technology more useful for people with a range of diverse speech patterns and disabilities. The project is housed ...