Can you Understand him? Let's Look at his Word Accuracy - Automatic Evaluation of Tracheoesophageal Speech

Schuster M, Nöth E, Haderlein T, Steidl S, Batliner A, Rosanowski F (2005)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2005

Original Authors: Schuster Maria, Nöth Elmar, Haderlein Tino, Steidl Stefan, Batliner Anton, Rosanowski Frank

Pages Range: 61-64

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of ICASSP 2005 - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Event location: Philadelphia US

URI: http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Forschung/Publikationen/2005/Schuster05-CYU.pdf

Abstract

Tracheoesophageal (TE) speech is a possibility to restore the ability to speak after laryngectomy. TE speech often shows low intelligibility. An objective means to determine and quantify the intelligibility does not exist until now and an automation of this procedure is desirable. We used a speech recognizer trained on normal, non–pathologic voices. We compared intelligibility scores for TE speech from five experienced raters with the word accuracy (WA) of our speech recognizer. A correlation coefficient of -.84 shows that WA can be a good indicator of intelligibility for pathologic voices. An outlook for future work is presented.

Authors with CRIS profile

Elmar Nöth Professur für Informatik (Mustererkennung) Tino Haderlein Medizinische Fakultät Stefan Steidl Lehrstuhl für Informatik 14 (Bild- und Sprachverarbeitung) (LME) Anton Batliner Lehrstuhl für Informatik 14 (Bild- und Sprachverarbeitung) (LME)

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APA:

Schuster, M., Nöth, E., Haderlein, T., Steidl, S., Batliner, A., & Rosanowski, F. (2005). Can you Understand him? Let's Look at his Word Accuracy - Automatic Evaluation of Tracheoesophageal Speech. In IEEE (Eds.), Proceedings of ICASSP 2005 - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (pp. 61-64). Philadelphia, US.

MLA:

Schuster, Maria, et al. "Can you Understand him? Let's Look at his Word Accuracy - Automatic Evaluation of Tracheoesophageal Speech." Proceedings of the ICASSP 2005 - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia Ed. IEEE, 2005. 61-64.

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