DEVELOPING A MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL FOR DETECTING INTELLIGIBILITY DIFFERENCES IN INDIVIDUALS WITH VOICE DISORDERS: A FEASIBILITY STUDY

Mary Pietrowicz, Diana Orbelo, Amrit Kamboj, Manoj Krishna Yarlagadda, Kevin Buller, Sara Charney, Cadman Leggett, Keiko Ishikawa

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Abstract

Voice disorders can reduce an individual's ability to produce intelligible speech; however, intelligibility in dysphonia has limited study. Current methods of intelligibility assessment are subjective and time-consuming, making reliable, efficient monitoring of patient progress difficult for clinicians. Machine-learning techniques, however, may provide novel, automated assessment solutions. This study aims to discover machine-learning models that differentiate habitual speech (HS) from hyperarticulated or “clear speech” (CS). Two corpora with same-subject recordings of HS and CS were used. The corpus consisted of 115 speakers, 65 healthy and 50 with mild-to-moderate voice disorders, saying six sentences from the Consensus of Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation. Acoustic analyses revealed significant differences between HS and CS in speech rate and CPP for female speakers. Various machine modeling techniques are explored for their ability to differentiate HS and CS, and the results are reported.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationForum Acusticum 2023 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023
PublisherEuropean Acoustics Association, EAA
ISBN (Electronic)9788888942674
StatePublished - 2023
Event10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023 - Torino, Italy
Duration: Sep 11 2023Sep 15 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of Forum Acusticum
ISSN (Print)2221-3767

Conference

Conference10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityTorino
Period9/11/239/15/23

Keywords

  • AI
  • clear speech
  • intelligibility
  • machine learning
  • voice disorders

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Acoustics and Ultrasonics

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