5 papers
PathBench: Speech Intelligibility Benchmark for Automatic Pathological Speech Assessment
Bence Mark Halpern, Thomas Tienkamp, Defne Abur +1
Automatic speech intelligibility assessment is crucial for monitoring speech disorders and therapy efficacy. However, existing methods are difficult to compare: research is fragmen…
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…
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…
Articulatory clarity and variability before and after surgery for tongue cancer
Thomas Tienkamp, Fleur van Ast, Roos van der Veen +10
Surgical treatment for tongue cancer can negatively affect the mobility and musculature of the tongue, which can influence articulatory clarity and variability. In this study, we i…