کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
566047 875914 2012 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Characterization of atypical vocal source excitation, temporal dynamics and prosody for objective measurement of dysarthric word intelligibility
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر پردازش سیگنال
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Characterization of atypical vocal source excitation, temporal dynamics and prosody for objective measurement of dysarthric word intelligibility
چکیده انگلیسی

Objective measurement of dysarthric speech intelligibility can assist clinicians in the diagnosis of speech disorder severity as well as in the evaluation of dysarthria treatments. In this paper, several objective measures are proposed and tested as correlates of subjective intelligibility. More specifically, the kurtosis of the linear prediction residual is proposed as a measure of vocal source excitation oddity. Additionally, temporal perturbations resultant from imprecise articulation and atypical speech rates are characterized by short- and long-term temporal dynamics measures, which in turn, are based on log-energy dynamics and on an auditory-inspired modulation spectral signal representation, respectively. Motivated by recent insights in the communication disorders literature, a composite measure is developed based on linearly combining a salient subset of the proposed measures with conventional prosodic parameters. Experiments with the publicly-available ‘Universal Access’ database of spastic dysarthric speech (10 patient speakers; 300 words spoken in isolation, per speaker) show that the proposed composite measure can achieve correlation with subjective intelligibility ratings as high as 0.97; thus the measure can serve as an accurate indicator of dysarthric speech intelligibility.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Speech Communication - Volume 54, Issue 5, June 2012, Pages 622–631
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