The limits of the Mean Opinion Score for speech synthesis evaluation

S Le Maguer, S King, N Harte - Computer Speech & Language, 2024 - Elsevier
The release of WaveNet and Tacotron has forever transformed the speech synthesis
landscape. Thanks to these game-changing innovations, the quality of synthetic speech has …

Shared characteristics of intervention techniques for oral vocabulary and speech comprehensibility in preschool children with co-occurring features of developmental …

L Rodgers, N Botting, M Cartwright, S Harding… - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Evidence suggests that over one-third of young children with developmental
language disorder (DLD) or speech sound disorder (SSD) have co-occurring features of …

Shared characteristics of intervention techniques for oral vocabulary and speech comprehensibility in preschool children with co-occurring features of developmental …

L Rodgers, N Botting, S Harding, M Cartwright… - BMJ open, 2024 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To descriptively compare and contrast intervention techniques for preschool
children with features of developmental language disorder (outcome: oral vocabulary) and …

Automatic modelling of perceptual judges in the context of head and neck cancer speech intelligibility

S Quintas, M Balaguer, J Mauclair… - … Journal of Language …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Perceptual measures such as speech intelligibility are known to be biased,
variant and subjective, to which an automatic approach has been seen as a more reliable …

SAMI: an M-Health application to telemonitor intelligibility and speech disorder severity in head and neck cancers

S Quintas, R Vaysse, M Balaguer, V Roger… - Frontiers in Artificial …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Perceptual measures, such as intelligibility and speech disorder severity, are widely used in
the clinical assessment of speech disorders in patients treated for oral or oropharyngeal …

Development of a holistic communication score (HoCoS) in patients treated for oral or oropharyngeal cancer: Preliminary validation

M Balaguer, J Pinquier, J Farinas… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background In head and neck cancer, many tools exist to measure speech impairment, but
few evaluate the impact on communication abilities. Some self‐administered questionnaires …

Large Language Models As A Proxy For Human Evaluation In Assessing The Comprehensibility Of Disordered Speech Transcription

K Tomanek, J Tobin, S Venugopalan… - ICASSP 2024-2024 …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, despite significant advances in recent years,
still have much room for improvement particularly in the recognition of disordered speech …

Speech Intelligibility

J Liss - The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics, Second Edition, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The construct of speech intelligibility (SI) is central to human communication. Estimates of SI
are routinely collected in assessments of speech and hearing as a proxy for degree of …

Unlocking potential: Integrating pronunciation into business instruction to inspire students and strengthen content teachers

B Kanoksilpatham, C Pariwatnanont - Studies in English Language …, 2024 - jurnal.usk.ac.id
Integrating content and language instruction has gained popularity worldwide because it
allows students to improve their content knowledge while concurrently honing their …

[HTML][HTML] Protocol: Shared characteristics of intervention techniques for oral vocabulary and speech comprehensibility in preschool children with co-occurring features …

L Rodgers, N Botting, M Cartwright, S Harding… - BMJ Open, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction Evidence suggests that over one-third of young children with developmental
language disorder (DLD) or speech sound disorder (SSD) have co-occurring features of …