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Oral communication laboratory
Where:
Center for Biomedical Technology
Ubicación:
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Informáticos, Laboratorio Neuromorphic Voice Processing, Centro de Tecnología Biomédica (CTB)
Typology:
Infraestructura Científica
Manager: Eustaquio Alfonso Castillo Yepes
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Fully equipped audio and video recording laboratory for neuromorphic voice studies: Soundproof panelled room; Voice recording analysis; High-quality recording equipment; Laryngeal videoendoscopy; Electroglottography; Facial electromyography; Actigraphy; Pathological and normative speech database.
Health, biomedicine, clinical neurolinguistics, security, neurology.
The laboratory¿s equipment makes it possible to study neuromotor and neurocognitive processes related to speech and the creation of spoken discourse; monitor face and neck muscles to carry out neuromotor modelling of the phonatory and articulatory systems, which can provide diagnostic information regarding neurodegenerative and neuromotor diseases; study the singing voice and carry out laryngeal inspections; study neuromotor and cognitive paraphasic dysarthria; carry out advanced processing of the voice to extract biometric and emotional phonation markers; and make recordings of any kind, remotely.
The laboratory can be put to a wide variety of uses: diagnosis of and rehabilitation from neurological diseases; monitoring and tracking of the speech of patients with Parkinson¿s, Alzheimer¿s and autism spectrum disorder (ASD); phonation exercises and neuromotor rehabilitation by means of diadochokinetic exercises; validation of neuromotor capacity; applications in motor, cognitive and emotional neurolinguistics for forensic analysis and expert witness testimony; multilevel visualisation and evaluation of speech with phonation, articulation, prosody and fluency indicators, to integrate knowledge for clinical explainability; voice rehabilitation in patients with long periods of intubation; evaluation of the result of implanting stem cells in vocal chords; phonatory aspects of sex-change operations; voice measurement in performances by professional singers; and monitoring the truth of spoken messages and voice analysis in telephone calls.
