Data Augmentation Technology for Dysarthria Assistive Systems
Wei-Chung Chu, Ying-Hsiu Hung, Wei-Zhong Zheng, Ying-Hui Lai
Abstract
Voice-driven communication aids are one of the methods commonly used by patients with dysarthria. However, this type of assistive devices demands a large amount of voice data from patients to increase the effectiveness. In the meantime, this will sink patients into an overwhelming recording burden. Due to those difficulties, this research proposes a voice augmentation system to conquer the aforementioned concern. Furthermore, the system can improve the recognition efficiency. The results of this research reveal that the proposed speech generator system for dysarthria can launch corpus to be more similarities to the patient’s speech. Moreover, the recognition rate, in duplicate sentences, has been improved and promoted to the higher level. The word error rate can be reduced from 64.42% to 4.39% in the case of patients with Free-talk. According to these results, our proposed system can provide more reliable and helpful technique for the development of communication aids.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.rocling-1.20
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021)
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Venue:
- ROCLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 144–150
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.rocling-1.20
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Wei-Chung Chu, Ying-Hsiu Hung, Wei-Zhong Zheng, and Ying-Hui Lai. 2021. Data Augmentation Technology for Dysarthria Assistive Systems. In Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021), pages 144–150, Taoyuan, Taiwan. The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP).
- Cite (Informal):
- Data Augmentation Technology for Dysarthria Assistive Systems (Chu et al., ROCLING 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/remove-xml-comments/2021.rocling-1.20.pdf