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DiSpLA 

A Digital Speech and Language Sample Application for Clinical Diagnostics and Monitoring in Swiss German

DiSpLA will be the first automatic speech recognition and language analysis app built for clinical use in Swiss German. The focus will be on speech-language changes in patients with dementia and children with speech-language disorders. Identifying and analyzing speaker-specific markers will reduce costs and time for clinical diagnoses and monitoring.

Team

Prof. Dr. Nathalie Giroud, UZH Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (KJPP) and Department of Adult Psychiatry and Psychotherapie

Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling, UZH Department of Computational Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo, UZH Department of Computational Linguistics

Dr. Jan Deriu, ZHAW School of Engineering 

Dr. Srikanth Madikeri, UZH Department of Computational Linguistics

Manuela Hürlimann, ZHAW School of Engineering 

Sarah Baur, UZH Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (KJPP)

Academic partner

Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich (PUK) 

Practice partner

Kinderspital Zürich 

Running time: 2026-2029