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September 30, 20250 citationsOpen Access

MVP: Multi-source Voice Pathology detection

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AKAlkis KoudounasPolytechnic University of TurinMQMoreno La QuatraUniversità degli Studi di Enna KoreGCGabriele CiravegnaInstitute for Scientific Interchange

Key Points

  • MVP achieves up to +13% AUC improvement over single-source methods, enhancing voice disorder detection.
  • Empirical validation across German, Portuguese, and Italian languages confirms effectiveness in diverse contexts.
  • Intermediate feature fusion using transformers effectively captures complementary characteristics from recordings.
  • Innovative fusion strategies include waveform concatenation, intermediate feature fusion, and decision-level combination.

Abstract

Voice disorders significantly impact patient quality of life, yet non-invasive automated diagnosis remains under-explored due to both the scarcity of pathological voice data, and the variability in recording sources. This work introduces MVP (Multi-source Voice Pathology detection), a novel approach that leverages transformers operating directly on raw voice signals. We explore three fusion strategies to combine sentence reading and sustained vowel recordings: waveform concatenation, intermediate feature fusion, and decision-level combination. Empirical validation across the German, Portuguese, and Italian languages shows that intermediate feature fusion using transformers best captures the complementary characteristics of both recording types. Our approach achieves up to +13% AUC improvement over single-source methods.

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Koudounas et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68dc12c58a7d58c25ebb0aaehttps://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2505.20050
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