Vocal Tract Representation in the Recognition of Cerebral Palsied Speech.

Purpose: In this study, the authors explored articulatory information as a means of improving the recognition of dysarthric speech by machine. Method: Data were derived chiefly from the TORGO database of dysarthric articulation (Rudzicz, Namasivayam, & Wolff, 2011) in which motions of various points...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 1190 - 1208
Autores principales: Rudzicz, Frank, Hirst, Graeme, Lieshout, Pascal Van, Smith, Anne, Ziegler, Wolfram
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 8/1/2012
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          Rudzicz, Frank
          Hirst, Graeme
          Lieshout, Pascal Van
          Smith, Anne
          Ziegler, Wolfram
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          University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
          Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto
          Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
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        Phonetics
        Recognition (Psychology)
        Articulation disorders
        Cerebral palsy
        Experimental design
        Noise
        Regression analysis
        Research funding
        Physiological aspects of speech
        Speech perception
        Vocal cords
        Maximum likelihood statistics
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          Phonetics
          Recognition (Psychology)
          Articulation disorders
          Cerebral palsy
          Experimental design
          Noise
          Regression analysis
          Research funding
          Physiological aspects of speech
          Speech perception
          Vocal cords
          Maximum likelihood statistics
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        articulation
        dysarthria
        speech recognition
        articulation
        dysarthria
        speech recognition
      ab: Purpose: In this study, the authors explored articulatory information as a means of improving the recognition of dysarthric speech by machine. Method: Data were derived chiefly from the TORGO database of dysarthric articulation (Rudzicz, Namasivayam, & Wolff, 2011) in which motions of various points in the vocal tract are measured during speech. In the 1st experiment, the authors provided a baseline model indicating a relatively low performance with traditional automatic speech recognition (ASR) using only acoustic data from dysarthric individuals. In the 2nd experiment, the authors used various measures of entropy (statistical disorder) to determine whether characteristics of dysarthric articulation can reduce uncertainty in features of dysarthric acoustics. These findings led to the 3rd experiment, in which recorded dysarthric articulation was directly encoded into the speech recognition process. Results: The authors found that 18.3% of the statistical disorder in the acoustics of speakers with dysarthria can be removed if articulatory parameters are known. Using articulatory models reduces phoneme recognition errors relatively by up to 6% for speakers with dysarthria in speaker-dependent systems. Conclusions: Articulatory knowledge is useful in reducing rates of error in ASR for speakers with dysarthria and in reducing statistical uncertainty of their acoustic signals. These findings may help to guide clinical decisions related to the use of ASR in the future.
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