Alzheimer's Disease: New Challenges for Speech Analysis

Abstract

One of the first AD symptoms is memory loss, as well as others as language difficulties or temporal and spatial disorientation. In more advanced stages, those skills for carrying out the daily tasks or, even, basic bodily functions such as walking or swallowing [1], decrease or disappear. In any case, when the first symptoms are clear and subsequently diagnosed, the damage produced is already irreparable and chronic. Today, the diagnosis process as a screening method is limited since it is long in time, expensive and highly invasive.