Zero-Shot Parkinson's Disease Detection from Speech: Comparing Large Audio and Language Models
Researchers have compared two methods for using large language and audio models to detect Parkinson's disease from speech without prior training. The study found that performance varied depending on whether the models processed handcrafted acoustic features or raw audio waveforms. While handcrafted features offered more consistent results in low-resource languages like Bengali, direct audio input showed dataset-dependent improvements. AI
IMPACT Investigates how different AI model input modalities affect performance in zero-shot disease detection from speech.