Design and Collection of Speech Data as the First Step of Localization the Intelligent Diagnosis of Autism in Iranian Children
Subject Areas : electrical and computer engineeringMaryam Alizadeh 1 , Shima tabibian 2 *
1 - Cyberspace Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Cyberspace Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Autism diagnosis, speech processing, machine learning, speech data, children, Persian language,
Abstract :
Autism Spectrum Disorder is a type of disorder in which, the patients suffer from a developmental disorder that manifests itself by symptoms such as inability to social communication. Thus, the most apparent sign of autism is a speech disorder. The first part of this paper reviews research studies conducted to automatically diagnose autism based on speech processing methods. According to our review, the main speech processing approaches for diagnosing autism can be divided into two groups. The first group detects individuals with autism by processing their answers or feelings in response to questions or stories. The second group distinguishes people with autism from healthy people because of the accuracy of recognizing their spoken utterances based on automatic speech recognition systems. Despite much research being conducted outside Iran, few studies have been conducted in Iran. The most important reason for this is the lack of rich data that meet the needs of autism diagnosis based on the speech processing of suspected people. In the second part of the paper, we discuss the process of designing, collecting, and evaluating a speaker-independent dataset for autism diagnosis in Iranian children as the first step in the localization of the mentioned field.
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