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Aphasia is a language disorder that can lead to speech errors known as paraphasias, which involve the misuse, substitution, or invention of words. Automatic paraphasia detection can help those with Aphasia by facilitating clinical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Matthew Perez , Aneesha Sampath , Minxue Niu , Emily Mower Provost

Aphasia is a common speech and language disorder, typically caused by a brain injury or a stroke, that affects millions of people worldwide. Detecting and assessing Aphasia in patients is a difficult, time-consuming process, and numerous…

In this work, we develop new self-learning techniques with an attention-based sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model for automatic speech recognition (ASR). For untranscribed speech data, the hypothesis from an ASR system must be used as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Kenichi Kumatani , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Yashesh Gaur , Robert Gmyr , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Jinyu Li , Michael Zeng

Aphasia is a language disorder that affects the speaking ability of millions of patients. This paper presents a new benchmark for Aphasia speech recognition and detection tasks using state-of-the-art speech recognition techniques with the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Jiyang Tang , William Chen , Xuankai Chang , Shinji Watanabe , Brian MacWhinney

The recently proposed Sequence-to-Sequence (seq2seq) framework advocates replacing complex data processing pipelines, such as an entire automatic speech recognition system, with a single neural network trained in an end-to-end fashion. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Jan Chorowski , Navdeep Jaitly

Aphasia is a language disorder affecting one third of stroke patients. Current aphasia assessment does not consider natural speech due to the time consuming nature of manual transcriptions and a lack of knowledge on how to analyze such…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-27 Mara Barberis , Pieter De Clercq , Bastiaan Tamm , Hugo Van hamme , Maaike Vandermosten

Sequence-to-sequence (S2S) modeling is becoming a popular paradigm for automatic speech recognition (ASR) because of its ability to jointly optimize all the conventional ASR components in an end-to-end (E2E) fashion. This report…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-30 Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Xiaofei Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Toru Taniguchi , Dung Tran , Yuya Fujita

We introduce Wav2Seq, the first self-supervised approach to pre-train both parts of encoder-decoder models for speech data. We induce a pseudo language as a compact discrete representation, and formulate a self-supervised pseudo speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Felix Wu , Kwangyoun Kim , Shinji Watanabe , Kyu Han , Ryan McDonald , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Yoav Artzi

Despite recent advances in voice separation methods, many challenges remain in realistic scenarios such as noisy recording and the limits of available data. In this work, we propose to explicitly incorporate the phonetic and linguistic…

Aphasia, a language disorder primarily caused by a stroke, is traditionally diagnosed using behavioral language tests. However, these tests are time-consuming, require manual interpretation by trained clinicians, suffer from low ecological…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Pieter De Clercq , Corentin Puffay , Jill Kries , Hugo Van Hamme , Maaike Vandermosten , Tom Francart , Jonas Vanthornhout

Quality of data plays an important role in most deep learning tasks. In the speech community, transcription of speech recording is indispensable. Since the transcription is usually generated artificially, automatically finding errors in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Xiaofei Wang , Jinyi Yang , Ruizhi Li , Samik Sadhu , Hynek Hermansky

Automatic assessment of dysarthric speech is essential for sustained treatments and rehabilitation. However, obtaining atypical speech is challenging, often leading to data scarcity issues. To tackle the problem, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Eun Jung Yeo , Kwanghee Choi , Sunhee Kim , Minhwa Chung

This paper presents a fully automated approach for identifying speech anomalies from voice recordings to aid in the assessment of speech impairments. By combining Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) and encoder-decoder-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Laurin Wagner , Mario Zusag , Theresa Bloder

Linguistic anomalies detectable in spontaneous speech have shown promise for various clinical applications including screening for dementia and other forms of cognitive impairment. The feasibility of deploying automated tools that can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Changye Li , Trevor Cohen , Serguei Pakhomov

Recent techniques for speech deepfake detection often rely on pre-trained self-supervised models. These systems, initially developed for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), have proved their ability to offer a meaningful representation of…

Recent breakthroughs in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) have enabled fully automated Alzheimer's Disease (AD) detection using ASR transcripts. Nonetheless, the impact of ASR errors on AD detection remains poorly understood. This paper…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Yin-Long Liu , Rui Feng , Jia-Xin Chen , Yi-Ming Wang , Jia-Hong Yuan , Zhen-Hua Ling

In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based algorithm to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for aphasia, apraxia, and dysarthria speech by utilizing electroencephalography (EEG) features recorded…

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

Good communication is critical to good healthcare. Clinical dialogue is a conversation between health practitioners and their patients, with the explicit goal of obtaining and sharing medical information. This information contributes to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Gayani Nanayakkara , Nirmalie Wiratunga , David Corsar , Kyle Martin , Anjana Wijekoon

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) outcomes serve as input for downstream tasks, substantially impacting the satisfaction level of end-users. Hence, the diagnosis and enhancement of the vulnerabilities present in the ASR model bear…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Seonmin Koo , Chanjun Park , Jinsung Kim , Jaehyung Seo , Sugyeong Eo , Hyeonseok Moon , Heuiseok Lim
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