Quantifying the effect of speech pathology on automatic and human speaker verification

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Auteurs principaux: Halpern, Bence Mark, Tienkamp, Thomas, Huang, Wen-Chin, Violeta, Lester Phillip, Rebernik, Teja, de Visscher, Sebastiaan, Witjes, Max, Wieling, Martijn, Abur, Defne, Toda, Tomoki
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author Halpern, Bence Mark
Tienkamp, Thomas
Huang, Wen-Chin
Violeta, Lester Phillip
Rebernik, Teja
de Visscher, Sebastiaan
Witjes, Max
Wieling, Martijn
Abur, Defne
Toda, Tomoki
author_facet Halpern, Bence Mark
Tienkamp, Thomas
Huang, Wen-Chin
Violeta, Lester Phillip
Rebernik, Teja
de Visscher, Sebastiaan
Witjes, Max
Wieling, Martijn
Abur, Defne
Toda, Tomoki
contents This study investigates how surgical intervention for speech pathology (specifically, as a result of oral cancer surgery) impacts the performance of an automatic speaker verification (ASV) system. Using two recently collected Dutch datasets with parallel pre and post-surgery audio from the same speaker, NKI-OC-VC and SPOKE, we assess the extent to which speech pathology influences ASV performance, and whether objective/subjective measures of speech severity are correlated with the performance. Finally, we carry out a perceptual study to compare judgements of ASV and human listeners. Our findings reveal that pathological speech negatively affects ASV performance, and the severity of the speech is negatively correlated with the performance. There is a moderate agreement in perceptual and objective scores of speaker similarity and severity, however, we could not clearly establish in the perceptual study, whether the same phenomenon also exists in human perception.
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spellingShingle Quantifying the effect of speech pathology on automatic and human speaker verification
Halpern, Bence Mark
Tienkamp, Thomas
Huang, Wen-Chin
Violeta, Lester Phillip
Rebernik, Teja
de Visscher, Sebastiaan
Witjes, Max
Wieling, Martijn
Abur, Defne
Toda, Tomoki
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
I.2.7
This study investigates how surgical intervention for speech pathology (specifically, as a result of oral cancer surgery) impacts the performance of an automatic speaker verification (ASV) system. Using two recently collected Dutch datasets with parallel pre and post-surgery audio from the same speaker, NKI-OC-VC and SPOKE, we assess the extent to which speech pathology influences ASV performance, and whether objective/subjective measures of speech severity are correlated with the performance. Finally, we carry out a perceptual study to compare judgements of ASV and human listeners. Our findings reveal that pathological speech negatively affects ASV performance, and the severity of the speech is negatively correlated with the performance. There is a moderate agreement in perceptual and objective scores of speaker similarity and severity, however, we could not clearly establish in the perceptual study, whether the same phenomenon also exists in human perception.
title Quantifying the effect of speech pathology on automatic and human speaker verification
topic Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
I.2.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06208