Selection of relevant features is important for discriminating speech in detection based ASR
system, thus contributing to the improved performance of the detector. In the context of …

The inability to speak fluently degrades the quality of life of many individuals. Early
intervention from childhood can reduce the disfluency of speech among adults. Traditionally …

This paper investigates the potential of Automatic Speech Recognition application in
measuring the speech intelligibility of speech impaired speakers. ASR has been suggested …

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 …

Voice disorders could increase unhealthy social behavior and voice abuse, and dramatically
affect the patients' quality of life. Therefore, automatic intelligibility detection of pathological …

Pathological speech usually refers to the voice disorders resulting from atypicalities in voice
and/or in the articulatory mechanisms due to disease, illness or other physical problem in …

Pathological speech usually refers to the condition of speech distortion resulting from
atypicalities in voice and/or in the articulatory mechanisms owing to disease, illness or other …

Intelligibility is widely used to measure the severity of articulatory problems in pathological
speech. Recently, a number of automatic intelligibility assessment tools have been …

We proposed and evaluated a speech intelligibility estimation method that does not require
a clean speech reference signal. The propose method uses the features defined in the ITU-T …

In clinical practice, assessment of intelligibility in speakers with dysarthria is performed by
speech-language pathologists through auditory perceptual tests which demand patients' …