Automatic speaker independent dysarthric speech intelligibility assessment system

Dysarthria is a condition which hampers the ability of an individual to control muscles that play major role in speech delivery. The loss fine over assist movement lips, vocal chords, tongue and diaphragm results abnormal One can assess severity level dysarthria by analyzing intelligibility spoken individual. Continuous assessment helps language pathologists not only study impact medication but also allows them plan personalized therapy. It clinicians immensely if system reliable, automatic, simple for (a) patients undergo (b) interpret. Lack availability dysarthric data has resulted development speaker dependentautomatic systems requires speak large number utterances. In this paper, we propose cost minimization procedure select optimal (small) utterances need be patient, four different independent require patient small words, (c) score close perceptual Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) relate to. being relatable SLP benefits both clinician from usability perspective.