Hernandez A, Pérez Toro PA, Nöth E, Orozco Arroyave JR, Maier A, Yang SH (2022)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Conference contribution, Original article
Publication year: 2022
Pages Range: 51-55
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of Interspeech 2022
URI: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2022/hernandez22_interspeech.html
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10674
Open Access Link: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2022/hernandez22_interspeech.html
State-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems perform well on healthy speech. However, the performance on impaired speech still remains an issue. The current study explores the usefulness of using Wav2Vec self-supervised speech representations as features for training an ASR system for dysarthric speech. Dysarthric speech recognition is particularly difficult as several aspects of speech such as articulation, prosody and phonation can be impaired. Specifically, we train an acoustic model with features extracted from Wav2Vec, Hubert, and the cross-lingual XLSR model. Results suggest that speech representations pretrained on large unlabelled data can improve word error rate (WER) performance. In particular, features from the multilingual model led to lower WERs than Fbanks or models trained on a single language. Improvements were seen in English speakers with cerebral palsy caused dysarthria (UASpeech corpus), Spanish speakers with Parkinsonian dysarthria (PC-GITA corpus) and Italian speakers with paralysis-based dysarthria (EasyCall corpus). Compared to using Fbank features, XLSR-based features reduced WERs by 6.8%, 22.0%, and 7.0% for the UASpeech, PC-GITA, and EasyCall corpus, respectively.
APA:
Hernandez, A., Pérez Toro, P.A., Nöth, E., Orozco Arroyave, J.R., Maier, A., & Yang, S.H. (2022). Cross-lingual Self-Supervised Speech Representations for Improved Dysarthric Speech Recognition. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2022 (pp. 51-55). Seoul, KR.
MLA:
Hernandez, Abner, et al. "Cross-lingual Self-Supervised Speech Representations for Improved Dysarthric Speech Recognition." Proceedings of the Interspeech, Seoul 2022. 51-55.
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