Psychophysiology-aided Perceptually Fluent Speech Analysis of Children Who Stutter

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Autores principales: Xiao, Yi, Sharma, Harshit, Tumanova, Victoria, Salekin, Asif
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author Xiao, Yi
Sharma, Harshit
Tumanova, Victoria
Salekin, Asif
author_facet Xiao, Yi
Sharma, Harshit
Tumanova, Victoria
Salekin, Asif
contents This paper presents a novel approach named PASAD that detects changes in perceptually fluent speech acoustics of young children. Particularly, analysis of perceptually fluent speech enables identifying the speech-motor-control factors that are considered as the underlying cause of stuttering disfluencies. Recent studies indicate that the speech production of young children, especially those who stutter, may get adversely affected by situational physiological arousal. A major contribution of this paper is leveraging the speaker's situational physiological responses in real-time to analyze the speech signal effectively. The presented PASAD approach adapts a Hyper-Network structure to extract temporal speech importance information leveraging physiological parameters. Moreover, we collected speech and physiological sensing data from 73 preschool-age children who stutter (CWS) and who do not stutter (CWNS) in different conditions. PASAD's unique architecture enables identifying speech attributes distinct to a CWS's fluent speech and mapping them to the speaker's respective speech-motor-control factors. Extracted knowledge can enhance understanding of children's speech-motor-control and stuttering development. Our comprehensive evaluation shows that PASAD outperforms state-of-the-art multi-modal baseline approaches in different conditions, is expressive and adaptive to the speaker's speech and physiology, generalizable, robust, and is real-time executable.
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spellingShingle Psychophysiology-aided Perceptually Fluent Speech Analysis of Children Who Stutter
Xiao, Yi
Sharma, Harshit
Tumanova, Victoria
Salekin, Asif
Sound
Human-Computer Interaction
Audio and Speech Processing
This paper presents a novel approach named PASAD that detects changes in perceptually fluent speech acoustics of young children. Particularly, analysis of perceptually fluent speech enables identifying the speech-motor-control factors that are considered as the underlying cause of stuttering disfluencies. Recent studies indicate that the speech production of young children, especially those who stutter, may get adversely affected by situational physiological arousal. A major contribution of this paper is leveraging the speaker's situational physiological responses in real-time to analyze the speech signal effectively. The presented PASAD approach adapts a Hyper-Network structure to extract temporal speech importance information leveraging physiological parameters. Moreover, we collected speech and physiological sensing data from 73 preschool-age children who stutter (CWS) and who do not stutter (CWNS) in different conditions. PASAD's unique architecture enables identifying speech attributes distinct to a CWS's fluent speech and mapping them to the speaker's respective speech-motor-control factors. Extracted knowledge can enhance understanding of children's speech-motor-control and stuttering development. Our comprehensive evaluation shows that PASAD outperforms state-of-the-art multi-modal baseline approaches in different conditions, is expressive and adaptive to the speaker's speech and physiology, generalizable, robust, and is real-time executable.
title Psychophysiology-aided Perceptually Fluent Speech Analysis of Children Who Stutter
topic Sound
Human-Computer Interaction
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09089