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Adapting acoustic and lexical models to dysarthric speech

Mengistu, Kinfe Tadesse, Rudzicz, Frank·2011·2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

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Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder resulting from neurological damage to the part of the brain that controls the physical production of speech. It is, in part, characterized by pronunciation errors that include deletions, substitutions, insertions, and distortions of phonemes. These errors follow consistent intra-speaker patterns that we exploit through acoustic and lexical model adaptation to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) on dysarthric speech. We show that acoustic model adaptation yields an average relative word error rate (WER) reduction of 36.99% and that pronunciation lexicon adaptation (PLA) further reduces the relative WER by an average of 8.29% on a large vocabulary task of over 1500 words for six speakers with severe to moderate dysarthria. PLA also shows an average relative WER reduction of 7.11% on speaker-dependent models evaluated using 5-fold cross-validation.

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Authors
Mengistu, K. T., & Rudzicz, F.
Affiliations
University of Toronto (CA)
Venue
2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2011-05
Pages
4924-4927
ISSN
1520-6149 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2109848220
Cited by
82
References
11
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3.00
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conference paper
Language
en
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closed
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IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Voice and Speech Disorders
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Signal Processing › Speech and Audio Processing
Keywords
dysarthria, speech recognition, acoustic model adaptation, motor speech disorders, word error rate reduction, speaker-dependent models, large vocabulary speech recognition

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