Speech recognition in Alzheimer's disease with personal assistive robots
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چکیده
To help individuals with Alzheimer’s disease live at home for longer, we are developing a mobile robotic platform, called ED, intended to be used as a personal caregiver to help with the performance of activities of daily living. In a series of experiments, we study speech-based interactions between each of 10 older adults with Alzheimers disease and ED as the former makes tea in a simulated home environment. Analysis reveals that speech recognition remains a challenge for this recording environment, with word-level accuracies between 5.8% and 19.2% during household tasks with individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. This work provides a baseline assessment for the types of technical and communicative challenges that will need to be overcome in human-robot interaction for this population.
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