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Speech sound disorder (SSD) refers to the developmental disorder in which children encounter persistent difficulties in correctly pronouncing words. Assessment of SSD has been relying largely on trained speech and language pathologists…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Si-Ioi Ng , Tan Lee

Speech sound disorder (SSD) refers to a type of developmental disorder in young children who encounter persistent difficulties in producing certain speech sounds at the expected age. Consonant errors are the major indicator of SSD in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Si-Ioi Ng , Cymie Wing-Yee Ng , Jingyu Li , Tan Lee

Speech sound disorder (SSD) is defined as a persistent impairment in speech sound production leading to reduced speech intelligibility and hindered verbal communication. Early recognition and intervention of children with SSD and timely…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Saja Al Ani , Joanne Cleland , Ahmed Zoha

Current synthetic speech detection (SSD) methods perform well on certain datasets but still face issues of robustness and interpretability. A possible reason is that these methods do not analyze the deficiencies of synthetic speech. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Yuxiang Zhang , Zhuo Li , Jingze Lu , Wenchao Wang , Pengyuan Zhang

Speech production is a complex phenomenon, wherein the brain orchestrates a sequence of processes involving thought processing, motor planning, and the execution of articulatory movements. However, this intricate execution of various…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Shakeel Ahmad Sheikh

This study presents a model of automatic speech recognition (ASR) designed to diagnose pronunciation issues in children with speech sound disorders (SSDs) to replace manual transcriptions in clinical procedures. Since ASR models trained for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Taekyung Ahn , Yeonjung Hong , Younggon Im , Do Hyung Kim , Dayoung Kang , Joo Won Jeong , Jae Won Kim , Min Jung Kim , Ah-ra Cho , Dae-Hyun Jang , Hosung Nam

Automated detection of voice disorders with computational methods is a recent research area in the medical domain since it requires a rigorous endoscopy for the accurate diagnosis. Efficient screening methods are required for the diagnosis…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-06 Vibhuti Gupta

This article describes a system for analyzing acoustic data to assist in the diagnosis and classification of children's speech sound disorders (SSDs) using a computer. The analysis concentrated on identifying and categorizing four distinct…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Yao-Ming Kuo , Shanq-Jang Ruan , Yu-Chin Chen , Ya-Wen Tu

Speech sound disorders are a common communication impairment in childhood. Because speech disorders can negatively affect the lives and the development of children, clinical intervention is often recommended. To help with diagnosis and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Manuel Sam Ribeiro , Joanne Cleland , Aciel Eshky , Korin Richmond , Steve Renals

Speech Sound Disorders (SSD) affect roughly five percent of children, yet speech-language pathologists face severe staffing shortages and unmanageable caseloads. We test a hierarchical approach to SSD classification on the granular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Darren Fürst , Sebastian Steindl , Ulrich Schäfer

We present ChiReSSD, a speech reconstruction framework that preserves children speaker's identity while suppressing mispronunciations. Unlike prior approaches trained on healthy adult speech, ChiReSSD adapts to the voices of children with…

Speaker verification systems are vulnerable to spoofing attacks which presents a major problem in their real-life deployment. To date, most of the proposed synthetic speech detectors (SSDs) have weighted the importance of different segments…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Ali Khodabakhsh , Cenk Demiroglu

Speech processing techniques are useful for analyzing speech and language development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), who are often varied and delayed in acquiring these skills. Early identification and intervention are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Anfeng Xu , Rajat Hebbar , Rimita Lahiri , Tiantian Feng , Lindsay Butler , Lue Shen , Helen Tager-Flusberg , Shrikanth Narayanan

The a posteriori speech presence probability (SPP) is the fundamental component of noise power spectral density (PSD) estimation, which can contribute to speech enhancement and speech recognition systems. Most existing SPP estimators can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Shuai Tao , Jesper Rindom Jensen , Yang Xiang , Himavanth Reddy , Qingzheng Zhang , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Diagnosing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by identifying abnormal speech patterns from examiner-patient dialogues presents significant challenges due to the subtle and diverse manifestations of speech-related symptoms in affected…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Chuanbo Hu , Jacob Thrasher , Wenqi Li , Mindi Ruan , Xiangxu Yu , Lynn K Paul , Shuo Wang , Xin Li

Diagnostic procedures for ASD (autism spectrum disorder) involve semi-naturalistic interactions between the child and a clinician. Computational methods to analyze these sessions require an end-to-end speech and language processing pipeline…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Rimita Lahiri , Manoj Kumar , Somer Bishop , Shrikanth Narayanan

Acoustic-to-articulatory speech inversion could enhance automated clinical mispronunciation detection to provide detailed articulatory feedback unattainable by formant-based mispronunciation detection algorithms; however, it is unclear the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Nina R Benway , Yashish M Siriwardena , Jonathan L Preston , Elaine Hitchcock , Tara McAllister , Carol Espy-Wilson

To understand why self-supervised learning (SSL) models have empirically achieved strong performances on several speech-processing downstream tasks, numerous studies have focused on analyzing the encoded information of the SSL layer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Jialu Li , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Nancy L. McElwain

Children speech recognition is indispensable but challenging due to the diversity of children's speech. In this paper, we propose a filter-based discriminative autoencoder for acoustic modeling. To filter out the influence of various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Chiang-Lin Tai , Hung-Shin Lee , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

Goal: Numerous studies had successfully differentiated normal and abnormal voice samples. Nevertheless, further classification had rarely been attempted. This study proposes a novel approach, using continuous Mandarin speech instead of a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Syu-Siang Wang , Chi-Te Wang , Chih-Chung Lai , Yu Tsao , Shih-Hau Fang
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