Robust automatic intelligibility assessment techniques evaluated on speakers treated for head and neck cancer

C Middag, R Clapham, R Van Son… - Computer speech & …, 2014 - Elsevier
It is generally acknowledged that an unbiased and objective assessment of the
communication deficiency caused by a speech disorder calls for automatic speech …

[PDF][PDF] Automated intelligibility assessment of pathological speech using phonological features

C Middag, JP Martens, G Van Nuffelen… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2009 - Springer
It is commonly acknowledged that word or phoneme intelligibility is an important criterion in
the assessment of the communication efficiency of a pathological speaker. People have …

Combining phonological and acoustic ASR-free features for pathological speech intelligibility assessment

C Middag, T Bocklet, JP Martens… - 12th Annual conference of …, 2011 - biblio.ugent.be
Intelligibility is widely used to measure the severity of articulatory problems in pathological
speech. Recently, a number of automatic intelligibility assessment tools have been …

Towards reducing patient effort for the automatic prediction of speech intelligibility in head and neck cancers

S Quintas, A Abad, J Mauclair… - ICASSP 2023-2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The automatic prediction of speech intelligibility can be seen as a growing and relevant
alternative to the perceptual evaluations used clinically, which are known to be biased …

[PDF][PDF] Automatic speech recognition systems for the evaluation of voice and speech disorders in head and neck cancer

A Maier, T Haderlein, F Stelzle, E Nöth… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2009 - Springer
In patients suffering from head and neck cancer, speech intelligibility is often restricted. For
assessment and outcome measurements, automatic speech recognition systems have …

Towards robust automatic evaluation of pathologic telephone speech

K Riedhammer, G Stemmer, T Haderlein… - … IEEE Workshop on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

[PDF][PDF] DIA: a tool for objective intelligibility assessment of pathological speech.

C Middag, JP Martens, G Van Nuffelen, M De Bodt - MAVEBA, 2009 - library.oapen.org
Intelligibility is generally accepted to be a very relevant measure in the assessment of
pathological speech. In clinical practice, intelligibility is measured using one of the many …

Objective intelligibility assessment of pathological speakers

C Middag, G Van Nuffelen, JP Martens… - 9th annual conference …, 2008 - biblio.ugent.be
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Intelligibility of disordered speech: Global and detailed scores

MS Ganzeboom, M Bakker, C Cucchiarini, H Strik - 2016 - repository.ubn.ru.nl
Measuring the intelligibility of disordered speech is a common practice in both clinical and
research contexts. Over the years various methods have been proposed and studied …

Can we use speaker embeddings on spontaneous speech obtained from medical conversations to predict intelligibility?

S Quintas, M Balaguer, J Mauclair… - 2023 IEEE Automatic …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The automatic prediction of speech intelligibility is a recurrent problem in the context of
pathological speech. Despite recent developments, these systems are normally applied to …