Improving ASR Fairness for Cleft Lip and Palate Speech: A Study on Severity-Aware Data Mixing

Susmita Bhattacharjee, Jagabandhu Mishra, H. S. Shekhawat +2

Speech produced by individuals with cleft lip and palate (CLP) is often hypernasal (and sometimes breathy) due to structural anomalies, yielding shifts in formant structure that de…