We present an articulatory synthesis framework for the synthesis and manipulation of oral cancer speech for clinical decision making and alleviation of patient stress. Objective and subjective evaluations demonstrate that the framework has acceptable naturalness and is worth further investigation. A subsequent subjective vowel and consonant identification experiment showed that the articulatory synthesis system can manipulate the articulatory trajectories so that the synthesised speech reproduces problems present in the ground truth oral cancer speech.
@article{arxiv.2203.17072,
title = {Manipulation of oral cancer speech using neural articulatory synthesis},
author = {Bence Mark Halpern and Teja Rebernik and Thomas Tienkamp and Rob van Son and Michiel van den Brekel and Martijn Wieling and Max Witjes and Odette Scharenborg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.17072},
year = {2022}
}
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5 pages, 4 tables, 1 figure. Submitted to Interspeech 2022