[PDF] Top 20 Acoustic transformations to improve the intelligibility of dysarthric speech

... 8 dysarthric individuals (with either cere- bral palsy or multiple sclerosis) controlled non- critical devices in their home ...This speech-based environmen- tal control was compared with a ‘scanning’ ... See full document

... automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies have been commercially available for healthy talkers, these technologies did not perform satisfactorily well when directly used for talkers with dysarthria, a motor ... See full document

... with speech, voice, and/or language ...robust speech recognition and a new speech synthesis technique to assist speakers with severe speech disorders in their verbal ...of speech-based ... See full document

... The FIF method is used to achieve an “inverse filter” (an equalizer) of the RIR. Taking into account the sensitivity of the human ear to different frequencies [26], a FIF method based on GT filters was designed to ... See full document

... life, speech is often accompanied by a situation- specific acoustic cue; a hungry bark as you ask ‘Has anyone fed the ...on speech intelligibility in noise and evaluates their interaction with ... See full document

... behavioural speech therapy to improve the communication of people with Parkinson’s disease (PD), but our understanding of the ways in which a person’s speech changes along a continuum from very slow ... See full document

... The work presented in this paper has shown the effects of increasing intensity, duration or F0 and addition of pauses in dysarthric speech perception. In terms of clinical applications, amplification of any ... See full document

... adapting acoustic models in the way that is e ff ective for normal ...the speech has low intelligibility and there is limited adaptation data available for a speaker, two conditions that are often met ... See full document

... heavily dysarthric patients (15% on control speakers, 23% on moderate, and 44% on heavily dysarthric ...specific acoustic measurements: segment duration, formant frequency, fricative center of ... See full document

... on speech intelligibility, particularly for in-vehicle ...in speech spectra at the receiver locations between the left and the right ears, also potentially influencing the perception of speech ... See full document

... ing intelligibility (both could be considered to reduce amplitude modulation depth of the transmitted signal due to temporal smearing), and this could be a basis for an interaction ... See full document

... of speech production while guiding human experts to focus on specific parts of the speech, considered as ...for speech productions of people with mild to moderate dysarthria, for which speech ... See full document

... recurrent acoustic patterns (the dictionary), and a matrix of activations of these patterns over the training ...obtained acoustic patterns correspond to slot values within semantic ...to acoustic ... See full document

... 2) Car Ignition Noise: At the time of some of the conversation it is possible that person may be out of his home. The road traffic vehicles always generate different noises. Generally all the vehicles are travelled by ... See full document

... motor speech examination, a voice sample was taken consisting of reading the Grandfather and Rainbow Passages and two minutes of connected ...of speech in conversation were also calculated from these tape ... See full document

... authentic speech intelligibility test should be conducted in real rooms using an artificial mouth to reproduces the test word lists and at the same time the subjects at the receiver position write down the ... See full document

... the speech which is important part of services in ...the intelligibility of speech is the general rule in this type of building that may isolate our ability to recognize ...and speech ... See full document

... neurological speech disorder, which exhibits multi-fold disturbances in the speech production system of an individual and can have a detrimental effect on the speech out- ...problems, ... See full document

... During DF recognition, we apply all 21 DF classifiers on both dysarthric and non-dysarthric speech data to obtain the corresponding DF values (“+” or “-”) at each frame. For the TIMIT corpus, we ... See full document

... These methods are based on a wide variety of methodological paradigms. Noteworthy developments are papers by Liss and co-workers, who have published a number of methodologies over recent years that are successful in ... See full document