Comparison in suprasegmental characteristics between typical and dysarthric talkers at varying severity levels

Mohammad Soleymanpour; Michael T. Johnson; Jeffrey Berry

doi:10.1109/SpeD53181.2021.9587369

Comparison in suprasegmental characteristics between typical and dysarthric talkers at varying severity levels

Mohammad Soleymanpour, Michael T. Johnson, Jeffrey Berry

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Abstract

Dysarthria is a speech disorder often characterized by slow speech with reduced intelligibility. This preliminary study investigates suprasegmental characteristics between typical and dysarthric speakers at varying severity levels, with the long-term goal of improving methods for dysarthric speech synthesis/augmentation and enhancement. First, we aim to analyze phonemes, speaking rate and pause characteristics of typical and dysarthric speech using the phoneme- and word-level alignment information extracted by Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA). Then, pitch and intensity declination trends and range analysis are conducted. The pitch and intensity declination are measured by fitting a regression line. These analyses are conducted on dysarthric speech in TORGO, containing 8 dysarthric speakers involved with cerebral palsy or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and 7 age- and gender-matched typical speakers. These results are important for the development of dysarthric speech synthesis, augmentation to statistically model and evaluate characteristics such as pause, speaking rate, pitch, and intensity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2021 11th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, SpeD 2021
Pages	52-56
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665427869
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SpeD53181.2021.9587369
State	Published - 2021
Event	11th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, SpeD 2021 - Virtual, Bucharest, Romania Duration: Oct 13 2021 → Oct 15 2021

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Name	2021 11th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, SpeD 2021

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Conference	11th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, SpeD 2021
Country/Territory	Romania
City	Virtual, Bucharest
Period	10/13/21 → 10/15/21

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© 2021 IEEE.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This work was supported by NationalInstitutes of Health underNIDCD R15 DC017296-01. This work was supported by NationalInstitutesof Health underNIDCD R15 DC017296-01.

Funders	Funder number
NationalInstitutesof Health underNIDCD
National Institutes of Health (NIH)	R15 DC017296-01

Keywords

Dysarthria
F0 declination
Forced alignment
Speech analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Human-Computer Interaction
Signal Processing
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Communication

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Soleymanpour, M., Johnson, M. T., & Berry, J. (2021). Comparison in suprasegmental characteristics between typical and dysarthric talkers at varying severity levels. In 2021 11th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, SpeD 2021 (pp. 52-56). (2021 11th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, SpeD 2021). https://doi.org/10.1109/SpeD53181.2021.9587369

Soleymanpour, Mohammad ; Johnson, Michael T. ; Berry, Jeffrey. / Comparison in suprasegmental characteristics between typical and dysarthric talkers at varying severity levels. 2021 11th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, SpeD 2021. 2021. pp. 52-56 (2021 11th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, SpeD 2021).

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Soleymanpour, M, Johnson, MT & Berry, J 2021, Comparison in suprasegmental characteristics between typical and dysarthric talkers at varying severity levels. in 2021 11th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, SpeD 2021. 2021 11th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, SpeD 2021, pp. 52-56, 11th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, SpeD 2021, Virtual, Bucharest, Romania, 10/13/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/SpeD53181.2021.9587369

Comparison in suprasegmental characteristics between typical and dysarthric talkers at varying severity levels. / Soleymanpour, Mohammad; Johnson, Michael T.; Berry, Jeffrey.
2021 11th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, SpeD 2021. 2021. p. 52-56 (2021 11th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, SpeD 2021).

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Comparison in suprasegmental characteristics between typical and dysarthric talkers at varying severity levels

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