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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for dysarthric speech remains challenging due to data scarcity, particularly in non-English languages. To address this, we fine-tune a voice conversion model on English dysarthric speech (UASpeech) to…

Dysarthria is a speech disorder that hinders communication due to difficulties in articulating words. Detection of dysarthria is important for several reasons as it can be used to develop a treatment plan and help improve a person's quality…

Dysarthric speech recognition (DSR) research has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, evolving from the basic understanding of individual words to the intricate comprehension of sentence-level expressions, all driven by the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shiyao Wang , Shiwan Zhao , Jiaming Zhou , Yong Qin

Training machine learning algorithms for speech applications requires large, labeled training data sets. This is problematic for clinical applications where obtaining such data is prohibitively expensive because of privacy concerns or lack…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-30 Yishan Jiao , Ming Tu , Visar Berisha , Julie Liss

Dysarthria, a motor speech disorder, affects intelligibility and requires targeted interventions for effective communication. In this work, we investigate automated mispronunciation feedback by collecting a dysarthric speech dataset from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Seohyun Park , Chitralekha Gupta , Michelle Kah Yian Kwan , Xinhui Fung , Alexander Wenjun Yip , Suranga Nanayakkara

This study investigates the impact of integrating a dataset of disordered speech recordings ($\sim$1,000 hours) into the fine-tuning of a near state-of-the-art ASR baseline system. Contrary to what one might expect, despite the data being…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Jimmy Tobin , Katrin Tomanek , Subhashini Venugopalan

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems remain brittle on dysarthric and other atypical speech. Recent audio-language models raise the possibility of improving performance by conditioning on additional clinical context at inference time,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pehuén Moure , Niclas Pokel , Bilal Bounajma , Yingqiang Gao , Roman Boehringer , Longbiao Cheng , Shih-Chii Liu

A key challenge in dysarthric speech recognition is the speaker-level diversity attributed to both speaker-identity associated factors such as gender, and speech impairment severity. Most prior researches on addressing this issue focused on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Mengzhe Geng , Zengrui Jin , Tianzi Wang , Shujie Hu , Jiajun Deng , Mingyu Cui , Guinan Li , Jianwei Yu , Xurong Xie , Xunying Liu

Dysarthria, a common issue among stroke patients, severely impacts speech intelligibility. Inappropriate pauses are crucial indicators in severity assessment and speech-language therapy. We propose to extend a large-scale speech recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Jeehyun Lee , Yerin Choi , Tae-Jin Song , Myoung-Wan Koo

Automatic recognition of dysarthric speech remains a highly challenging task to date. Neuro-motor conditions and co-occurring physical disabilities create difficulty in large-scale data collection for ASR system development. Adapting SSL…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Huimeng Wang , Zengrui Jin , Mengzhe Geng , Shujie Hu , Guinan Li , Tianzi Wang , Haoning Xu , Xunying Liu

Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder often characterized by reduced speech intelligibility through slow, uncoordinated control of speech production muscles. Automatic Speech recognition (ASR) systems may help dysarthric talkers communicate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-28 Mohammad Soleymanpour , Michael T. Johnson , Rahim Soleymanpour , Jeffrey Berry

State-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems perform well on healthy speech. However, the performance on impaired speech still remains an issue. The current study explores the usefulness of using Wav2Vec self-supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Abner Hernandez , Paula Andrea Pérez-Toro , Elmar Nöth , Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave , Andreas Maier , Seung Hee Yang

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) research has achieved impressive performance in recent years and has significant potential for enabling access for people with dysarthria (PwD) in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and home…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Wing-Zin Leung , Mattias Cross , Anton Ragni , Stefan Goetze

Dysarthric speakers experience substantial communication challenges due to impaired motor control of the speech apparatus, which leads to reduced speech intelligibility. This creates significant obstacles in dataset curation since actual…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yejin Jeon , Solee Im , Youngjae Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Dysarthria is malfunctioning of motor speech caused by faintness in the human nervous system. It is characterized by the slurred speech along with physical impairment which restricts their communication and creates the lack of confidence…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Megha Rughani , D. Shivakrishna

Speech impairments caused by conditions such as cerebral palsy or genetic disorders pose significant challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Despite recent advances, ASR models like Whisper struggle with non-normative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Niclas Pokel , Pehuén Moure , Roman Boehringer , Yingqiang Gao

Dysarthria is a neurological disorder that significantly impairs speech intelligibility, often rendering affected individuals unable to communicate effectively. This necessitates the development of robust dysarthric-to-regular speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shoutrik Das , Nishant Singh , Arjun Gangwar , S Umesh

Voice-based human-machine interaction is a primary modality for accessing intelligent systems, yet individuals with dysarthria face systematic exclusion due to recognition performance gaps. Whilst automatic speech recognition (ASR) achieves…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Ali Alsayegh , Tariq Masood

Dysarthric speech poses significant challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems due to its high variability and reduced intelligibility. In this work we explore the use of diffusion models for dysarthric speech enhancement,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Dimme de Groot , Tanvina Patel , Devendra Kayande , Odette Scharenborg , Zhengjun Yue

Dysarthria is a condition which hampers the ability of an individual to control the muscles that play a major role in speech delivery. The loss of fine control over muscles that assist the movement of lips, vocal chords, tongue and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Ayush Tripathi , Swapnil Bhosale , Sunil Kumar Kopparapu