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A Cross-Lingual Acoustic Disease-Alignment Framework for Respiratory Health Assessment from Spontaneous Speech

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 16, 2026 · UTC

Spontaneous speech offers a scalable, noninvasive signal for respiratory health assessment, yet interpretable models that generalize across languages remain challenging because disease-related acoustic changes are confounded by language-specific phonetic variation. We present CL-DAF, a Cross-Lingual Disease-Alignment Framework that identifies acoustic dimensions whose disease effects remain consistent across languages. Using 201 English and 75 newly collected Bangla speakers, we construct a common 272-dimensional acoustic representation and quantify disease alignment using signed rank-biserial

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