000009201 001__ 9201 000009201 005__ 20240415130217.0 000009201 0247_ $$2DOI$$a10.6083/n583xv73k 000009201 037__ $$aIR 000009201 245__ $$aQuantifying speech characteristics for detecting autism 000009201 260__ $$bOregon Health and Science University 000009201 269__ $$a2021 000009201 336__ $$aAbstract 000009201 520__ $$aThe presence of prosodic anomalies in autistic children is recognized by experienced clinicians but their quantitative analysis is a cumbersome task beyond the scope of typical pen and pencil assessment. Quantifiable speech measurements, i.e., loudness and pitch, are correlated to prosody making them potential references for assisting the analysis. However, their importance is underestimated in the application of autism diagnosis. These measurements are largely ignored in mainstream autism diagnosis batteries and commonly replaced with few vague assessments. This research work emphasizes the potential of speech measurements on autism diagnosis through creating and evaluating a fully automatic speech-oriented autism detecting system. We propose an automatic approach allowing to tease apart various aspects of prosodic abnormalities and to translate them into fine-grained, automated, and quantifiable measurements. 000009201 540__ $$fCC BY 000009201 542__ $$fIn copyright - joint owners 000009201 650__ $$aEarly Diagnosis$$035171 000009201 650__ $$aSpeech Production Measurement$$026234 000009201 650__ $$aMachine Learning$$011449 000009201 650__ $$aAutistic Disorder$$015231 000009201 650__ $$aChild, Preschool$$016489 000009201 6531_ $$aneurodivergent 000009201 6531_ $$aharmonic model 000009201 6531_ $$aspeech analysis 000009201 6531_ $$aprosody 000009201 691__ $$aSchool of Medicine$$041369 000009201 7001_ $$aChen, Liu$$uOregon Health and Science University$$041354 000009201 7001_ $$aAsgari, Meysam$$uOregon Health and Science University$$041354 000009201 7001_ $$aFombonne, Eric$$uOregon Health and Science University$$041354 000009201 711__ $$aResearch Week$$uOregon Health and Science University$$d2021 000009201 8564_ $$937f3cdbd-00bc-4c33-83df-78db51aa88cb$$s54163$$uhttps://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/9201/files/Chen-Liu-OHSU-ResearchWeek-2021.pdf 000009201 905__ $$a/rest/prod/n5/83/xv/73/n583xv73k 000009201 980__ $$aResearch Week