Speech and Language in Neurocognitive Disorder

  • Helen Meng, Brian Mak, Man-Wai Mak, Helene Fung, Xianmin Gong, Timothy Kwok, Xunying Liu, Vincent Mok, Patrick Wong, Jean Woo, Xixin Wu, Ka Ho Wong, Sean Shensheng Xu, Naijun Zheng, Ranzo Huang, Jiawen Kang, Xiaoquan Ke, Junan Li, Jinchao Li, Yi Wang. Integrated and enhanced pipeline system to support spoken language analytics for screening neurocognitive disorders. INTERSPEECH 2023, Dublin, Ireland. (pdf)
  • Xianmin Gong, Patrick C. M. Wong, Helene H. Fung, Vincent C. T. Mok, Timothy C. Y. Kwok, Jean Woo, Ka Ho Wong, Helen Meng. The Hong Kong Grocery Shopping Dialog Task (HK-GSDT): A Quick Screening Test for Neurocognitive Disorders. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 13302, 2022.(pdf)
  • Zijian Ding, Jiawen Kang, Tinky Oi Ting HO, Ka Ho Wong, Helene H. Fung, Helen Meng, Xiaojuan Ma. TalkTive: A Conversational Agent Using Backchannels to Engage Older Adults in Neurocognitive Disorders Screening. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-19). April 2022.(pdf)
  • Jinchao Li, Jianwei Yu, Zi Ye, Simon Wong, Manwai Mak, Brian Mak, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, A Comparative Study of Acoustic and Linguistic Features Classification for Alzheimer's Disease Detection, ICASSP, 6-11 June 2021.(pdf)
  • Sean Shensheng Xu, Man-Wai Mak, Ka Ho Wong, Helen Meng, and Timothy C.Y. Kwok, "Age-Invariant Speaker Embedding for Diarization of Cognitive Assessments", Proc. International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP'2021), Hong Kong, Jan. 2021.(pdf)

    • Dysarthric Speech

    • Ka Ho Wong and Helen Mei-Ling Meng (2023), "Automatic Analyses of Dysarthric Speech based on Distinctive Features", APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing: Vol. 12: No. 3, e18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/116.00000077(pdf)
    • Jianwei Yu, Xurong Xie, Shansong Liu, Shoukang Hu, Max. W. Y. Lam, Xixin Wu, Ka Ho Wong, Xyunying Liu, Helen Meng, "Development of the CUHK Dysarthric Speech Recognition System for the UASpeech Corpus", Interspeech, pages 2938-2942, Hyderabad, 2-6 September, 2018 (pdf)
    • Ka Ho Wong, Wing Sum Yeung, Yu Ting Yeung and Helen Meng, "Exploring Articulatory Characteristics of Cantonese Dysarthric Speech Using Distinctive Features," in the Proceedings of the 41th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), Shanghai, China, 20 - 25 March, 2016. (pdf)
    • Yu Ting Yeung, Ka Ho Wong and Helen Meng, "Improving Automatic Forced Alignment for Dysarthric Speech Transcription", in the Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH, Dresden, Germany, 6 - 10 September, 2015. (pdf)
    • Ka Ho Wong, Yu Ting Yeung, Patrick C. M. Wong, Gina-Anne Levow and Helen Meng, "Analysis of Dysarthric Speech Using Distinctive Feature Recognition", in the Proceedings of 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), Dresden, Germany, September 11, 2015. (pdf)
    • Ka Ho Wong, Yu Ting Yeung, Edwin H. Y. Chan, Patrick C. M. Wong, Gina-Anne Levow and Helen Meng, "Development of a Cantonese Dysarthric Speech Corpus", in the Proceedings of the Interspeech, Dresden, Germany, 6 - 10 September, 2015. (pdf)

      • E-Commu-Book

      • Ka Ho Wong, Wai Kim Leung and Helen Meng, "E-Commu-Book: An Assistive Technology for Users with Speech Impairments", in the Proceedings of the Interspeech, Dresden, Germany, 6 - 10 September, 2015. (pdf)

      Transportation

      • Tsz Fai CHOW, Ka Wing SUNG, Helen M. MENG, Ka Ho WONG, Yong-Hong KUO, Kelivn K. F. TSOI, "An Integrated Platform of Real-Time Travel Information and Wearable Devices for Smart Public Transportation, " in the Proceedings of 5th IEEE BigData Congress 2016, San Francisco, USA, 27 June-2 July 2016.

      Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT)

      • Wai-Kim Leung, Ka-Wa Yuen, Ka-Ho Wong and Helen Meng, "Development of Text-to-Audiovisual Speech Synthesis to Support Interactive Language Learning on a Mobile Device" in the Proceeding of IEEE 4th International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom 2013),Budapest, Hungary, 2-5 December 2013 (pdf)
      • Ka-Wa Yuen, Wai-Kim Leung, Peng-fei Liu, Ka-Ho Wong, Xiao-jun Qian,Wai-Kit Lo and Helen Meng, "Enunciate: An Internet-Accessible Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training System and Related User Evaluations ", in the Proceedings of Oriental COCOSDA 2011, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 26-28 October, 2011. (pdf)
      • Ka-Ho Wong, Wai-Kit Lo and Helen Meng, "Allophonic Variations in Visual Speech Synthesis for Corrective Feedback in CAPT," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, 22-27 May 2011. (pdf)
      • Helen MENG, Wai-Kit LO, Alissa M. HARRISON, Pauline LEE, Ka-Ho WONG, Wai-Kim LEUNG and Fanbo MENG, "Development of Automatic Speech Recognition and Synthesis Technologies to Support Chinese Learners of English: The CUHK Experience," in the Proceedings of the 2nd Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA2010), Biopolis, SINGAPORE, 14-17 December 2010. (Best Oral Paper Award) (pdf)
      • Ka-Ho WONG, Wai-Kim LEUNG, Wai-Kit LO and Helen MENG, "Development of an Articulatory Visual-Speech Synthesizer to Support Language Learning," in the Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Tainan, Taiwan, 29 November-3 December 2010. (pdf)