TOWARDS ROBUST AUTOMATIC EVALUATION OF PATHOLOGIC TELEPHONE SPEECH

Riedhammer KT, Stemmer G, Haderlein T, Schuster M, Rosanowski F, Nöth E, Maier A (2007)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2007

Publisher: IEEE

Edited Volumes: 2007 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2007, Proceedings

City/Town: Kyoto

Book Volume: 1

Pages Range: 717-722

Edition: 1

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of ASRU 2007

Event location: Kyoto

ISBN: 978-1-4244-1746-9

URI: http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Forschung/Publikationen/2007/Riedhammer07-TRA.pdf

Abstract

For many aspects of speech therapy an objective evaluation of the intelligibility of a patient's speech is needed. We investigate the evaluation of the intelligibility of speech by means of automatic speech recognition. Previous studies have shown that measures like word accuracy are consistent with human experts' ratings. To ease the patient's burden, it is highly desirable to conduct the assessment via phone. However, the telephone channel influences the quality of the speech signal which negatively affects the results. To reduce inaccuracies, we propose a combination of two speech recognizers. Experiments on two sets of pathological speech show that the combination results in consistent improvements in the correlation between the automatic evaluation and the ratings by human experts. Furthermore, the approach leads to reductions of 10% and 25% of the maximum error of the intelligibility measure. © 2007 IEEE.

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APA:

Riedhammer, K.T., Stemmer, G., Haderlein, T., Schuster, M., Rosanowski, F., Nöth, E., & Maier, A. (2007). TOWARDS ROBUST AUTOMATIC EVALUATION OF PATHOLOGIC TELEPHONE SPEECH. In Proceedings of ASRU 2007 (pp. 717-722). Kyoto: Kyoto: IEEE.

MLA:

Riedhammer, Korbinian Thomas, et al. "TOWARDS ROBUST AUTOMATIC EVALUATION OF PATHOLOGIC TELEPHONE SPEECH." Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Kyoto Kyoto: IEEE, 2007. 717-722.

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