Objective intelligibility assessment of pathological speakers
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- Catherine Middag (UGent) , Gwen Van Nuffelen, Jean-Pierre Martens (UGent) and Marc De Bodt (UGent)
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- Abstract
- Intelligibility is a primary measure for the assessment of pathological speech. Traditionally, it is measured using a perceptual test, which is by definition subjective in nature. Consequently, there is a great interest in reliable, automatic and therefore objective methods. This paper presents such a method that incorporates an automatic speech recognizer (ASR) for producing features that characterize the pronunciations of a speaker and an intelligibility prediction model (IPM) for converting these features into an intelligibility score. High correlations (about 0.90) between objective and perceptual scores are obtained with a system comprising two different speech recognizers: one with traditional acoustic models relating acoustical observations to triphone states and one using phonological features as an intermediate layer between the acoustical observations and the phonetic states.
- Keywords
- pathological speech, objective intelligibility assessment, phonological features, phonemic features
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-677184
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- Middag, Catherine, et al. “Objective Intelligibility Assessment of Pathological Speakers.” INTERSPEECH 2008: 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2008, VOLS 1-5, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2008, pp. 1745–48.
- APA
- Middag, C., Van Nuffelen, G., Martens, J.-P., & De Bodt, M. (2008). Objective intelligibility assessment of pathological speakers. INTERSPEECH 2008: 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2008, VOLS 1-5, 1745–1748. Baixas, France: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).
- Chicago author-date
- Middag, Catherine, Gwen Van Nuffelen, Jean-Pierre Martens, and Marc De Bodt. 2008. “Objective Intelligibility Assessment of Pathological Speakers.” In INTERSPEECH 2008: 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2008, VOLS 1-5, 1745–48. Baixas, France: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Middag, Catherine, Gwen Van Nuffelen, Jean-Pierre Martens, and Marc De Bodt. 2008. “Objective Intelligibility Assessment of Pathological Speakers.” In INTERSPEECH 2008: 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2008, VOLS 1-5, 1745–1748. Baixas, France: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).
- Vancouver
- 1.Middag C, Van Nuffelen G, Martens J-P, De Bodt M. Objective intelligibility assessment of pathological speakers. In: INTERSPEECH 2008: 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2008, VOLS 1-5. Baixas, France: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA); 2008. p. 1745–8.
- IEEE
- [1]C. Middag, G. Van Nuffelen, J.-P. Martens, and M. De Bodt, “Objective intelligibility assessment of pathological speakers,” in INTERSPEECH 2008: 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2008, VOLS 1-5, Brisbane, Australia, 2008, pp. 1745–1748.
@inproceedings{677184,
abstract = {{Intelligibility is a primary measure for the assessment of pathological speech. Traditionally, it is measured using a perceptual test, which is by definition subjective in nature. Consequently, there is a great interest in reliable, automatic and therefore objective methods. This paper presents such a method that incorporates an automatic speech recognizer (ASR) for producing features that characterize the pronunciations of a speaker and an intelligibility prediction model (IPM) for converting these features into an intelligibility score. High correlations (about 0.90) between objective and perceptual scores are obtained with a system comprising two different speech recognizers: one with traditional acoustic models relating acoustical observations to triphone states and one using phonological features as an intermediate layer between the acoustical observations and the phonetic states.}},
author = {{Middag, Catherine and Van Nuffelen, Gwen and Martens, Jean-Pierre and De Bodt, Marc}},
booktitle = {{INTERSPEECH 2008: 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2008, VOLS 1-5}},
isbn = {{9781615673780}},
issn = {{1990-9772}},
keywords = {{pathological speech,objective intelligibility assessment,phonological features,phonemic features}},
language = {{eng}},
location = {{Brisbane, Australia}},
pages = {{1745--1748}},
publisher = {{International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)}},
title = {{Objective intelligibility assessment of pathological speakers}},
url = {{http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2008/i08_1745.html}},
year = {{2008}},
}