3 accepted papers
This paper presents an investigation on applying automatic speech recognition (ASR) to speech assessment of people with aphasia (PWA). A distinctive characteristic of PWA speech is paraphasia, which refers to frequent occurrence of phonemic errors, unintended words and non-verbal sounds. In view of…
Aphasia is a type of acquired language impairment resulting from brain injury. Speech assessment is an important part of the comprehensive assessment process for aphasic patients. It is based on the acoustical and linguistic analysis of patients' speech elicited through pre-defined story-telling tas…
This paper describes the application of state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to objective assessment of voice and speech disorders. Acoustical analysis of speech has long been considered a promising approach to non-invasive and objective assessment of people. In the past the t…