Hypernasality in Speech of Children with Cleft Lip and Palate: Automatic Evaluation
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چکیده
We propose a novel approach for the automatic assessment of hypernasality in the speech of children with cleft lip and palate. Our system is based on short-time features as well as on large-scale features. It is compared to the perceptive evaluation of two experienced speech therapists. While the correlation between the scores of the speech therapists is 0.80 the correlation between the composite annotation of both raters and our proposed system is 0.81. The system operates on experts’ level.
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