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We present a case study on developing a customized speech-to-text system for a Hungarian speaker with severe dysarthria. State-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) models struggle with zero-shot transcription of dysarthric speech,…

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

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 speech exhibits high variability and limited labeled data, posing major challenges for both automatic speech recognition (ASR) and assistive speech technologies. Existing approaches rely on synthetic data augmentation or speech…

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 can help dysarthric talkers communicate…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Mohammad Soleymanpour , Michael T. Johnson , Rahim Soleymanpour , Jeffrey Berry

Speech disorders can make communication hard or even impossible for those who develop them. Personalised Text-to-Speech is an attractive option as a communication aid. We attempt voice reconstruction using a large speech model, with which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Ariadna Sanchez , Simon King

Dysarthric speech recognition (DSR) enhances the accessibility of smart devices for dysarthric speakers with limited mobility. Previously, DSR research was constrained by the fact that existing datasets typically consisted of isolated…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiyao Wang , Jiaming Zhou , Shiwan Zhao , Yong Qin

Zero-shot multi-speaker TTS aims to synthesize speech with the voice of a chosen target speaker without any fine-tuning. Prevailing methods, however, encounter limitations at adapting to new speakers of out-of-domain settings, primarily due…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yejin Jeon , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Conventional text-to-speech (TTS) research has predominantly focused on enhancing the quality of synthesized speech for speakers in the training dataset. The challenge of synthesizing lifelike speech for unseen, out-of-dataset speakers,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Wenbin Wang , Yang Song , Sanjay Jha

Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) technology have increased demand for personalized audio synthesis. Zero-shot voice cloning, a specialized TTS task, aims to synthesize a target speaker's voice using only a single audio sample and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ming Meng , Ziyi Yang , Jian Yang , Zhenjie Su , Yonggui Zhu , Zhaoxin Fan

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved human-like synthetic speech for single-speaker, single-language synthesis. Multilingual TTS systems are limited to resource-rich languages due to the lack of large paired text and studio-quality…

Dysarthric speech recognition faces challenges from severity variations and disparities relative to normal speech. Conventional approaches individually fine-tune ASR models pre-trained on normal speech per patient to prevent feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Qing Xiao , Yingshan Peng , PeiPei Zhang

Many consumer speech recognition systems are not tuned for people with speech disabilities, resulting in poor recognition and user experience, especially for severe speech differences. Recent studies have emphasized interest in personalized…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Colin Lea , Dianna Yee , Jaya Narain , Zifang Huang , Lauren Tooley , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Leah Findlater

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

Adaptive text to speech (TTS) can synthesize new voices in zero-shot scenarios efficiently, by using a well-trained source TTS model without adapting it on the speech data of new speakers. Considering seen and unseen speakers have diverse…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Yihan Wu , Xu Tan , Bohan Li , Lei He , Sheng Zhao , Ruihua Song , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

Personalizing dysarthric ASR is hindered by demanding enrollment collection and per-user training. We propose a hybrid meta-training method for a single model, enabling zero-shot and few-shot on-the-fly personalization via in-context…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Dhruuv Agarwal , Harry Zhang , Yang Yu , Quan Wang

Several recently proposed text-to-speech (TTS) models achieved to generate the speech samples with the human-level quality in the single-speaker and multi-speaker TTS scenarios with a set of pre-defined speakers. However, synthesizing a new…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Byoung Jin Choi , Myeonghun Jeong , Minchan Kim , Sung Hwan Mun , Nam Soo Kim

The rapid population aging has stimulated the development of assistive devices that provide personalized medical support to the needies suffering from various etiologies. One prominent clinical application is a computer-assisted speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Emre Yılmaz , Vikramjit Mitra , Ganesh Sivaraman , Horacio Franco

The mapping of text to speech (TTS) is non-deterministic, letters may be pronounced differently based on context, or phonemes can vary depending on various physiological and stylistic factors like gender, age, accent, emotions, etc. Neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Nabarun Goswami , Tatsuya Harada

When the available data of a target speaker is insufficient to train a high quality speaker-dependent neural text-to-speech (TTS) system, we can combine data from multiple speakers and train a multi-speaker TTS model instead. Many studies…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-09 Hieu-Thi Luong , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi , Nobuyuki Nishizawa
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