Predicting perceptual scores of speech intelligibility, articulation and voice quality for speakers with head and neck cancer

TitlePredicting perceptual scores of speech intelligibility, articulation and voice quality for speakers with head and neck cancer
Publication TypePresentation
Year of Publication2012
Conference NameDag van de Fonetiek 2012
AuthorsClapham, Renee, and Rob van Son
PublisherNederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen
Conference LocationUtrecht, Nederland
Abstract

Cancer of the head and neck can have a negative effect on a speaker's speech and voice quality. In the clinical situation, a clinician-independent manner to evaluate the perceptual quality a patient's speech and voice quality is sought. To this end, models using input from automatic evaluation tools (e.g. speaker feature sets) were developed to predict perceptual scores for speech intelligibility, articulation and voice quality. The validation corpus contains longitudinal recordings of 55 speakers (before treatment, short-term and long-term follow-up) and perceptual scores completed by 13 raters.