A Syllable Based Approach Towards The Intelligibility Study Of Impaired Speech
V. Keramaris, Bon K. Sy · 2005
This paper reports the development and the preliminary results of a syllable-based experiment towards the intelligibility study of impaired speech. In the development of the experiment, a syllable-based selection rule is introduced for an attempt at “binding” a set of “optimal” syllables to the set of words derived from it through the intelligibility scores. A rigorous probabilistic measure is developed to compute the intelligibility of dysarthric speech according to the result of a listening test with multiple participants. A preliminary experimental study based on a testbed of 229 syllables and 103 words derived from a vocabulary base of 6,500 words is reported.