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Analysis of speech disorders in patients with a high risk of developing Lewy body diseases
Novotný, Kryštof ; Kováč, Daniel (referee) ; Mekyska, Jiří (advisor)
Lewy bodies diseases (one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders) have the same pathological basis, but the individual representatives differ in their clinical manifestations. Different diseases affect the mental or physical side of the patient to a greater or lesser extent. This work assumes that thanks to the acoustic analysis of speech, it is possible to distinguish individual diseases from one another, because the disorders of the cognitive and motor aspects of a patient reflect in speech in specific ways. The thesis aims to describe the clinical features of the main representatives of the Lewy bodies diseases, to investigate their impact on speech, to propose characterizing acoustic parameters and then to compare their discriminative power. Speech recordings from the CoBeN and preLBD databases are used as input data for the proposed algorithm. Descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U test, FDR correction and XGBoost machine learning model using stratified cross-validation and balanced accuracy are used for subsequent evaluation. The result are scripts for the automated calculation of speech parameters from the database and their evaluation. The results of the analysis prove that the selected diseases can really be distinguished from each other and from a healthy control based on the manifestations in speech, already in the prodromal stages.
Using games and contests in English language teaching at elementary school level.
NOVOTNÝ, Kryštof
Abstract This Diploma Thesis deals with using games and competitions in teaching of English for the first level of primary schools. The aim of the thesis is to characterize the role of the game in English language teaching and its possible use in order to develop key language skills. The theoretical part deals with the psychological characteristics of the younger school age, then the theory of play and the developmental stages of children's play. In the last part of the thesis, there are described the different types of didactic games. The practical part consists of two parts. The first part presents didactic games, that are properly commented in terms of general educational and language objectives. Each of them was taught and reflected in terms of its effectiveness. The second chapter of the practical part presents the results of the research, which was conducted in the form of a guided interview with English language teachers at the elementary school, dealing with their experience in using English language lessons at primary school.
Assessing movement of articulatory organs based on acoustic analysis of speech
Novotný, Kryštof ; Galáž, Zoltán (referee) ; Mekyska, Jiří (advisor)
Hypokinetic dysarthria is a motor speech disorder often present during Parkinson’s disease. It affects the speech system, including articulatory abilities. There are several speech parameters describing this domain, so it is suggested to deal with their mutual comparison. This work aims to design and describe an algorithm for calculating the parameters of articulation, adapted for the Czech language, and then compare their discriminative power. The acoustic analysis of speech included in it is done via the Praat program and basic machine learning algorithms such as Expectation-Maximization, Kmeans and linear regression are used for the subsequent data processing. The Mann-Whitney U test and representatives of linear, nonlinear and ensemble machine learning models using cross-validation and balanced accuracy are used for evaluation. The results are scripts for automatic assessment of vowel space area, for calculating articulation parameters and for their evaluation. The outputs of the analysis of two different databases (PARCZ and CoBeN) prove that differences in articulation can indeed be observed between normal and dysarthric speech. Based on the mutual comparison of results, it is therefore proposed in the work which parameters and models of machine learning are being appropriate for further dealing with this issue.

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