Enhancing ASR for Stuttered Speech with Limited Data Using Detect and Pass

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05396v1
• Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 19:55:23 GMT
• Title: Enhancing ASR for Stuttered Speech with Limited Data Using Detect and Pass
• Authors: Olabanji Shonibare, Xiaosu Tong, Venkatesh Ravichandran
• Abstract summary: It is estimated that around 70 million people worldwide are affected by a speech disorder called stuttering. We propose a simple but effective method called 'Detect and Pass' to make modern ASR systems accessible for People Who Stutter.
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• Abstract: It is estimated that around 70 million people worldwide are affected by a speech disorder called stuttering. With recent advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), voice assistants are increasingly useful in our everyday lives. Many technologies in education, retail, telecommunication and healthcare can now be operated through voice. Unfortunately, these benefits are not accessible for People Who Stutter (PWS). We propose a simple but effective method called 'Detect and Pass' to make modern ASR systems accessible for People Who Stutter in a limited data setting. The algorithm uses a context aware classifier trained on a limited amount of data, to detect acoustic frames that contain stutter. To improve robustness on stuttered speech, this extra information is passed on to the ASR model to be utilized during inference. Our experiments show a reduction of 12.18% to 71.24% in Word Error Rate (WER) across various state of the art ASR systems. Upon varying the threshold of the associated posterior probability of stutter for each stacked frame used in determining low frame rate (LFR) acoustic features, we were able to determine an optimal setting that reduced the WER by 23.93% to 71.67% across different ASR systems.

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