Accurate synthesis of Dysarthric Speech for ASR data augmentation

no code implementations • 16 Aug 2023 • Mohammad Soleymanpour, Michael T. Johnson, Rahim Soleymanpour, Jeffrey Berry

To evaluate the effectiveness for synthesis of training data for ASR, dysarthria-specific speech recognition was used.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3

Bilingual Streaming ASR with Grapheme units and Auxiliary Monolingual Loss

no code implementations • 11 Aug 2023 • Mohammad Soleymanpour, Mahmoud Al Ismail, Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad, Kshitiz Kumar, Jian Wu

Our key developments constitute: (a) pronunciation lexicon with grapheme units instead of phone units, (b) a fully bilingual alignment model and subsequently bilingual streaming transformer model, (c) a parallel encoder structure with language identification (LID) loss, (d) parallel encoder with an auxiliary loss for monolingual projections.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

Synthesizing Dysarthric Speech Using Multi-talker TTS for Dysarthric Speech Recognition

no code implementations • 27 Jan 2022 • Mohammad Soleymanpour, Michael T. Johnson, Rahim Soleymanpour, Jeffrey Berry

Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder often characterized by reduced speech intelligibility through slow, uncoordinated control of speech production muscles.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2