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the integrity of the neurological system. The more complex the words; higher is the likelihood of errors and
variations in speaking of those words. At the same time, the selected words and phrases while speaking have been
chosen, because they require the involvement of different parts of the mouth, tongue, and soft palate in the back of
the throat as they contain two or more different syllables.
The accuracy of speech analysis (recognition, word onset detection, vocal feature extraction, etc.) degrades severely
when speech is recorded in adverse acoustical environments. While building a speech-based diagnostic tool, the
basic concern is the inability to extract the desired vocal features, significant errors in the vocal features, and
inaccuracies in the detection of the boundaries of words and phonemes.
Many other types of data such as, speech collection, processing, and analysis pose various unique challenges that
require careful design choices and evaluations to ensure that data collection will provide recordings of the highest
quality possible. While speech has received an increasing amount of attention analyzes, remain to be done to
validate its potential as biomarker and assessment tool. The focus in prior work has been on demonstrating the
relationships between neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative conditions and various vocal features.
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