Abstract
Dysarthria is a motor speech impairment affecting millions of people. Dysarthric speech can be far less intelligible than that of non-dysarthric speakers, causing significant communication difficulties. The goal of this work is to understand the effect that certain modifications have on the intelligibility of dysarthric speech. These modifications are designed to identify aspects of the speech signal or signal processing that may be especially relevant to the effectiveness of a system that transforms dysarthric speech to improve its intelligibility. A result of this study is that dysarthric speech can, in the best case, be modified only at the short-term spectral level to improve intelligibility from 68% to 87%. A baseline transformation system using standard technology, however, does not show improvement in intelligibility. Prosody also has a significant (p < 0.05) effect on intelligibility.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 924-927 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings |
| Volume | 1 |
| State | Published - 2003 |
| Event | 2003 IEEE International Conference on Accoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: Apr 6 2003 → Apr 10 2003 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Signal Processing
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering