Automatic Speech Recognition of Disordered Speech: Personalized Models Outperforming Human Listeners on Short Phrases

Green, Jordan R.; MacDonald, Robert L.; Jiang, Pan-Pan; Cattiau, Julie; Heywood, Rus; Cave, Richard; Seaver, Katie; Ladewig, Marilyn A.; Tobin, Jimmy; Brenner, Michael P.; Nelson, Philip C.; Tomanek, Katrin

doi:10.21437/interspeech.2021-1384

Automatic Speech Recognition of Disordered Speech: Personalized Models Outperforming Human Listeners on Short Phrases

This study evaluated the accuracy of personalized automatic speech recognition (ASR) for recognizing disordered speech from a large cohort of individuals with a wide range of underlying etiologies using an open vocabulary. The performance of these models was benchmarked relative to that of expert…