3 papers
eess.AS2026
Improving Automatic Speech Recognition for Speakers Treated for Oral Cancer using Data Augmentation and LLM Error Correction
Hidde Folkertsma, Thomas Tienkamp, Sebastiaan de Visscher +4
In recent years, the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems has made considerable progress. Unfortunately, for people with speech impairments, such as people tre…
cs.SD2025
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…
cs.CL2025
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…