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

Understand

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

• Automatic Speech recognition (ASR) systems may help dysarthric talkers communicate more effectively.
• To have robust dysarthria-specific ASR, sufficient training speech is required, which is not readily available.
• Recent advances in Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis multi-speaker end-to-end TTS systems suggest the possibility of using synthesis for data augmentation.