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Towards explainable reference-free speech intelligibility evaluation of people with pathological speech
Bence Mark Halpern, Thomas Tienkamp, Defne Abur +1
Objective assessment of speech that reflects meaningful changes in communication is crucial for clinical decision making and reproducible research. While existing objective assessm…
XPPG-PCA: Reference-free automatic speech severity evaluation with principal components
Bence Mark Halpern, Thomas B. Tienkamp, Teja Rebernik +5
Reliably evaluating the severity of a speech pathology is crucial in healthcare. However, the current reliance on expert evaluations by speech-language pathologists presents severa…
Reference-free automatic speech severity evaluation using acoustic unit language modelling
Bence Mark Halpern, Tomoki Toda
Speech severity evaluation is becoming increasingly important as the economic burden of speech disorders grows. Current speech severity models often struggle with generalization, l…
Relationship between objective and subjective perceptual measures of speech in individuals with head and neck cancer
Bence Mark Halpern, Thomas Tienkamp, Teja Rebernik +4
Meaningful speech assessment is vital in clinical phonetics and therapy monitoring. This study examined the link between perceptual speech assessments and objective acoustic measur…
Manipulation of oral cancer speech using neural articulatory synthesis
Bence Mark Halpern, Teja Rebernik, Thomas Tienkamp +5
We present an articulatory synthesis framework for the synthesis and manipulation of oral cancer speech for clinical decision making and alleviation of patient stress. Objective an…
The Effectiveness of Time Stretching for Enhancing Dysarthric Speech for Improved Dysarthric Speech Recognition
Luke Prananta, Bence Mark Halpern, Siyuan Feng +1
In this paper, we investigate several existing and a new state-of-the-art generative adversarial network-based (GAN) voice conversion method for enhancing dysarthric speech for imp…