CUHK Research: Changing the world

The onset of numerous neurological diseases can make communication difficult. Although research on solving these problems is ongoing, this is stymied by the lack of a relevant, sizeable language dataset to help researchers unlock what those affected are trying to say. Two CUHK professors are collaborating on technology solutions for Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong who suffer from dysarthria, which affects the articulation of sounds and words, and have since expanded their research to neurological diseases such as dementia. Their cross-disciplinary research combines multilingual speech processing, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and language learning. Patrick Chun Man Wong Stanley Ho Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Professor of Linguistics Helen Meng Mei-ling Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Speech and language processing Finding their voice again 17