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Utterance Verification-Based Dysarthric Speech Intelligibility Assessment Using Phonetic Posterior Features

Fritsch, Julian
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Magimai-Doss, Mathew  
January 1, 2021
IEEE Signal Processing Letters

In the literature, the task of dysarthric speech intelligibility assessment has been approached through development of different low-level feature representations, subspace modeling, phone confidence estimation or measurement of automatic speech recognition system accuracy. This paper proposes a novel approach where the intelligibility is estimated as the percentage of correct words uttered by a speaker with dysarthria by matching and verifying utterances of the speaker with dysarthria against control speakers' utterances in phone posterior feature space and broad phonetic posterior feature space. Experimental validation of the proposed approach on the UA-Speech database, with posterior feature estimators trained on the data from auxiliary domain and language, obtained a best Pearson's correlation coefficient (r) of 0.950 and Spearman's correlation coefficient (rho) of 0.957. Furthermore, replacing control speakers' speech with speech synthesized by a neural text-to-speech system obtained a best r of 0.931 and rho of 0.961.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/LSP.2021.3050362
Web of Science ID

WOS:000615032700004

Author(s)
Fritsch, Julian
Magimai-Doss, Mathew  
Date Issued

2021-01-01

Publisher

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Published in
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Volume

28

Start page

224

End page

228

Subjects

Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Engineering

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databases

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phonetics

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correlation

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testing

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speech coding

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estimation

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aerospace electronics

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dysarthric speech

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objective intelligibility assessment

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posterior features

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utterance verification

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