dysarthric speakers
Modelling Errors in Automatic Speech Recognition for Dysarthric Speakers
... for dysarthric speakers is di ffi cult because they require di ff erent types of ASR depending on their particular type and level of disabil- ity ...cause dysarthric speech to be characterized by ...
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Towards a noisy channel model of dysarthria in speech recognition
... and dysarthric speakers differ far more in their acoustics than in their ...the dysarthric data, the result is predictably more similar to the latter than if the conversion had not taken ...whereby ...
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Review on Speech Assistive Technologies for Dysarthric Patients
... supervised dysarthric speech data, to achieve two goals: 1) Achieving usable recognition accuracies with less training data, in order to minimize the initial effort of the target user, and 2) Achieving usable ...
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Model adaptation and adaptive training for the recognition of dysarthric speech
... moderate dysarthric speakers and speaker dependent (SD) systems better modelled variablities in the severe group of speakers [13, ...the speakers used in the ...of speakers examined in ...
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The quantitative assessment of interutterance stability : application to dysarthric speech
... modulations (EMS) (Liss, et al., 2010) and long-term average spectra (LTAS) (Utianski, et al., 2012). In each case, they were able to demonstrate their measures’ ability to distinguish between healthy and impaired ...
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The effect of three practice conditions on the consistency of chronic dysarthric speech
... Eight participants were recruited to the study enabling observations of participants across a continuum of severe, moderate and mild dysarthria. Four non-dysarthric speakers were also recruited to observe ...
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The TYPALOC Corpus: A Collection of Various Dysarthric Speech Recordings in Read and Spontaneous Styles
... the dysarthric corpus was recorded 30 years ...for dysarthric speakers is often quite short, leading to obvious limitations on the analyses possible on this speech ...
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Modifying Dysarthric Vowels using Formant Transformation Technique and Vowels Synthesis
... Dysarthria is described as impairment in one or more processes of speech production such as phonation, prosody, articulation. People with dysarthria have problem in controlling the pitch, loudness, and voice qualities ...
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Dysarthric speech evaluation: automatic and perceptual approaches
... time, reducing the extent of their intervention by scruti- nizing the speech signal. Indeed, this automatic process should permit treating a larger amount of speech production while guiding human experts to focus on ...
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Dysarthric Speech Recognition and Offline Handwriting Recognition using Deep Neural Networks
... across speakers with speech ...across dysarthric speak- ers, we need more data than just dysarthric and control speaker’s data from the TORGO ...across dysarthric speakers by creating ...
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Automatic dysfluency detection in dysarthric speech using deep belief networks
... Dysarthria is a speech disorder caused by difficulties in control- ling muscles, such as the tongue and lips, that are needed to produce speech. These differences in motor skills cause speech to be slurred, mumbled, and ...
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Alternative Speech Communication System for Persons with Severe Speech Disorders
... of dysarthric speech recognition, the frame length plays a crucial ...four dysarthric speakers is about 70%, which is a very satisfactory ...for dysarthric speaker assistance, 10 human ...
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Analysis of Dysarthric Speech using Distinctive Feature Recognition
... dysarthric speakers, in an attempt to assist human efforts in analysis to inform the development of intervention ...for dysarthric speech using neural networks and support vector machines [3] ...
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Communicating with conscious and mechanically ventilated critically ill patients: a systematic review
... The second option, reported in two case series, is the Blom Tracheostomy Tube which incorporates two sep- arate valve mechanisms, through which all of the ventilator-delivered inspiratory air is directed to the lungs and ...
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Grammatical collocations and verb particle constructions in Brussels French: A corpus linguistic approach to transfer
... from speakers, Mougeon and colleagues conclude that the source of the innovations in Ontario French is likely to be English, because degree of contact with the source language English explains the frequency of ...
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A study on metadiscoursive interaction in the doctoral dissertations of the native speakers of English and the Turkish speakers of English
... Corpus research in general has been growing since the 1960’s and providing new insights into many areas of language structure and use, offering opportunities to examine the actual language use in a large scope of ...
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The DesPho-APaDy Project: Developing an Acoustic-phonetic Characterization of Dysarthric Speech in French
... Even though associations between deviant acoustic- phonetic dimensions and certain types of dysarthria have been made in clinical practice and in the clinical literature, descriptions of dysarthria are often based on ...
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A study on metadiscoursive interaction in the MA theses of the native speakers of English and the Turkish speakers of English
... Turkish speakers (TSs) of English and the native speakers (NSs) of English, it could be interpreted that the TSs used a wide variety of transition markers ...native speakers (NSs) of English in all ...
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Differences in Communication Between Native English Speakers and EFL Saudi Female Speakers
... (EFL speakers) based on the results of the second set of semi-structured ...EFL speakers had neutral hesitation in their production of ...EFL speakers' ...EFL speakers had a tendency to ...
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Proficient beyond borders: assessing non-native speakers in a native speakers’ framework
... native speakers and non-native speakers on English reading literacy rather than other aspects of language proficiency can be derived from the concept of higher versus basic language cognition: The Common ...
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