For anyone with an interest in speech patterns, it was an interesting American group.
Yet in January 2006 it began its first clinical trial, tracking the progression of Parkinson's disease, a debilitating neurological disorder, by measuring gross motor movements and changes in speech patterns to the microsecond.
As best as I can tell from Peter Filkins's deceptively mellifluous translation, Adler often relied on differences in dialect and vocabulary, in speech patterns, rather than on conventional exposition to indicate who was talking or whose thoughts were flowing at any given moment.
But Canary Speech's software is capable of picking up such small changes in speech patterns.
Although deep learning algorithms required loads of training data, they could eventually learn to recognize words regardless of accents and other differences in speech patterns.
Finally, we plan to explore the complementary use of other joint modalities, such as video tracking of facial features (e.g., visemes), that can yield biomarkers for certain symptoms or mental conditions that do not necessarily show in speech patterns.
It doesn't help that young women, as is true for young people from marginalized groups, tend to pioneer changes in speech patterns.
Multiples who wear the mask, so to speak, may still notice others looking at them strangely, aware of shifts in speech patterns and personality traits but unable to put their finger on what's happening.
The therapist becomes alert to movement in language, to the disruption in the speech pattern, to the elements of surprise or reflection that halt a well-honed tale in its tracks, so that story or incident can be thought and felt about anew.
