Title
Automatic detection of consonant omission in cleft palate speech.
Abstract
Consonant omission is one of the most typical and common articulation disorders in cleft palate (CP) speech. The automatic evaluation of consonant omission provides an objective and aided diagnosis to speech-language pathologists and CP patients. This work proposes an automatic consonant omission method. The collection of pathologic speech data is far more difficult than that of normal speech. The speech samples applied in this work are collected from 80 CP patients, with annotation on the phonemic level by professional speech-language pathologists. The proposed method requires no pre-training or modeling, by taking advantages of priori knowledge of CP speech and Chinese phonetics. The classification between voiced initials and finals is a difficulty in Mandarin speech processing researches, this work proposes a time-domain waveform difference analysis method to address this difficulty. The proposed method achieves the accuracy of 88.9% for consonant omission detection in CP speech, and the sensitivity and specificity of the proposed method are 70.89% and 91.86% respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10772-018-09570-w
I. J. Speech Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cleft palate speech, Consonant omission, Articulation disorder, Resonance disorder
Normal speech,Consonant,Speech processing,Aided diagnosis,Resonance disorder,Computer science,Articulation Disorders,Phonetics,Speech recognition,Mandarin Chinese
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
1
1572-8110
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
13
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ling He1526.94
Xiyue Wang252.49
jing zhang3345.17
Qi Liu4191.55
Heng Yin52153111.33
Margaret Lech623924.84