Phone-attribute posteriors to evaluate the speech of cochlear implant users

Arias Vergara T, Orozco-Arroyave JR, Cernak M, Gollwitzer S, Schuster M, Nöth E (2019)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2019

Publisher: International Speech Communication Association

Book Volume: 2019-September

Pages Range: 3108-3112

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Event location: Graz AT

DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2144

Abstract

People with pre- and postlingual onset of deafness, i.e, age of occurrence of hearing loss, often present speech production problems even after hearing rehabilitation by cochlear implantation. In this paper, the speech of 20 prelinguals (aged between 18 to 71 years old), 20 postlinguals (aged between 33 to 78 years old) and 20 healthy control (aged between 31 to 62 years old) German native speakers are analyzed considering phone-attribute features extracted with pre-trained Deep Neural Networks. Speech signals are analyzed with reference to the manner of articulation of consonants according to 5 groups: nasals, sibilants, fricatives, voiced-stops, and voiceless-stops. According to the results, it is possible to detect alterations in the consonant production of CI users when compared with healthy speakers. A comprehensive evaluation of speech changes of CI users will help in the rehabilitation after deafening.

Authors with CRIS profile

Tomás Arias Vergara Professur für Informatik (Mustererkennung) Elmar Nöth Professur für Informatik (Mustererkennung)

Involved external institutions

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) DE Germany (DE) Logitech CH Switzerland (CH) Universidad de Antioquía (UDEA) CO Colombia (CO)

How to cite

APA:

Arias Vergara, T., Orozco-Arroyave, J.R., Cernak, M., Gollwitzer, S., Schuster, M., & Nöth, E. (2019). Phone-attribute posteriors to evaluate the speech of cochlear implant users. In Gernot Kubin, Thomas Hain, Bjorn Schuller, Dina El Zarka, Petra Hodl (Eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp. 3108-3112). Graz, AT: International Speech Communication Association.

MLA:

Arias Vergara, Tomás, et al. "Phone-attribute posteriors to evaluate the speech of cochlear implant users." Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Crossroads of Speech and Language, INTERSPEECH 2019, Graz Ed. Gernot Kubin, Thomas Hain, Bjorn Schuller, Dina El Zarka, Petra Hodl, International Speech Communication Association, 2019. 3108-3112.

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