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Ensemble of classifiers for speech evaluation

Sound 2025-01-03 v1 Artificial Intelligence Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

The article describes an attempt to apply an ensemble of binary classifiers to solve the problem of speech assessment in medicine. A dataset was compiled based on quantitative and expert assessments of syllable pronunciation quality. Quantitative assessments of 7 selected metrics were used as features: dynamic time warp distance, Minkowski distance, correlation coefficient, longest common subsequence (LCSS), edit distance of real se-quence (EDR), edit distance with real penalty (ERP), and merge split (MSM). Expert as-sessment of pronunciation quality was used as a class label: class 1 means high-quality speech, class 0 means distorted. A comparison of training results was carried out for five classification methods: logistic regression (LR), support vector machine (SVM), naive Bayes (NB), decision trees (DT), and K-nearest neighbors (KNN). The results of using the mixture method to build an ensemble of classifiers are also presented. The use of an en-semble for the studied data sets allowed us to slightly increase the classification accuracy compared to the use of individual binary classifiers.

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@article{arxiv.2501.00067,
  title  = {Ensemble of classifiers for speech evaluation},
  author = {G. Belokrylov and A. Korenev and B. Lodonova and A. Novokhrestov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.00067},
  year   = {2025}
}
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