Augmented datasheets for speech datasets and ethical decision-making

O Papakyriakopoulos, ASG Choi, W Thong… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Speech datasets are crucial for training Speech Language Technologies (SLT); however,
the lack of diversity of the underlying training data can lead to serious limitations in building …

Speaker adaptation for Wav2vec2 based dysarthric ASR

MK Baskar, T Herzig, D Nguyen, M Diez… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Dysarthric speech recognition has posed major challenges due to lack of training data and
heavy mismatch in speaker characteristics. Recent ASR systems have benefited from readily …

Exploring self-supervised pre-trained asr models for dysarthric and elderly speech recognition

S Hu, X Xie, Z Jin, M Geng, Y Wang… - ICASSP 2023-2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic recognition of disordered and elderly speech remains a highly challenging task to
date due to the difficulty in collecting such data in large quantities. This paper explores a …

A survey of technologies for automatic Dysarthric speech recognition

Z Qian, K Xiao, C Yu - EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music …, 2023 - Springer
Speakers with dysarthria often struggle to accurately pronounce words and effectively
communicate with others. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a powerful tool for …

Exploring the Role of Machine Learning in Diagnosing and Treating Speech Disorders: A Systematic Literature Review

Z Brahmi, M Mahyoob, M Al-Sarem… - Psychology Research …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Speech disorders profoundly impact the overall quality of life by impeding social
operations and hindering effective communication. This study addresses the gap in …

Enhancing Pre-trained ASR System Fine-tuning for Dysarthric Speech Recognition using Adversarial Data Augmentation

H Wang, Z Jin, M Geng, S Hu, G Li… - ICASSP 2024-2024 …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic recognition of dysarthric speech remains a highly challenging task to date. Neuro-
motor conditions and co-occurring physical disabilities create difficulty in large-scale data …

Exploring linguistic feature and model combination for speech recognition based automatic ad detection

Y Wang, T Wang, Z Ye, L Meng, S Hu, X Wu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is crucial in facilitating preventive care and
delay progression. Speech based automatic AD screening systems provide a non-intrusive …

Use of speech impairment severity for dysarthric speech recognition

M Geng, Z Jin, T Wang, S Hu, J Deng, M Cui… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A key challenge in dysarthric speech recognition is the speaker-level diversity attributed to
both speaker-identity associated factors such as gender, and speech impairment severity …

Speaking of accent: A content analysis of accent misconceptions in ASR research

K Prinos, N Patwari, CA Power - The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) researchers are working to address the differing
transcription performance of ASR by accent or dialect. However, research often has a limited …

Exploiting cross-domain and cross-lingual ultrasound tongue imaging features for elderly and dysarthric speech recognition

S Hu, X Xie, M Geng, M Cui, J Deng, G Li… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Articulatory features are inherently invariant to acoustic signal distortion and have been
successfully incorporated into automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems designed for …