Audience Response System-Based Evaluation of Intelligibility of Children’s Connected Speech – Validity, Reliability and Listener Differences

Strömbergsson, Sofia; Holm, Katarina; Edlund, Jens; Lagerberg, Tove B.; McAllister, Anita

doi:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2020.106037

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“…In addition to this, these studies were primarily concentrated on English speakers (72.7%), while only 27.3% of studies involved other languages. A total number of 15 languages were explored, namely, French ( Hesling et al, 2005 ; Girard et al, 2008 ; Burki et al, 2011 ; Kennedy and Blanchet, 2014 ), Korean ( Mitterer et al, 2013 ; Kim et al, 2022 ), Greek ( Kambanaros, 2014 ), Mitterer and McQueen, 2009 ), Dutch ( Ernestus et al, 2017 ), Norwegian ( Kirmess and Lind, 2011 ), Telugu ( Hivaprasad and Sadanandam, 2020 ), Cantonese ( Yiu et al, 2002 ), Persian ( Daneshi et al, 2020 ), Finnish ( Alexandrou et al, 2017 ), Bengali ( Bose et al, 2022 ), Spanish ( Guzman et al, 2021 ; Gonzalez-Alvarez and Sos-Pena, 2022 ; Lofgren and Hinzen, 2022 ), Portuguese ( Brinca et al, 2014 ; Sampaio et al, 2019 ), Swedish ( Alves et al, 2020 ; Strombergsson et al, 2020 ), Mandarin ( Tsai et al, 2012 ), and Italian (e.g., Cerrato et al, 1998 ; Leoni and Cutugno, 1999 ). In addition to English, studies on Italian connected speech were more abundant than that of other languages.…”

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A systematic review of studies on connected speech processing: Trends, key findings, and implications

Zare

Kania

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Connected speech processing (CSP) is of great significance to individuals’ language and cognitive development. It is particularly crucial not only for clinical detection and treatment of developmental disorders, but also for the Foreign/second language teaching instructions. However, given the importance of this field, there is a clear lack of systematic reviews that summarize the key findings of previous studies. To this end, through searching in the scientific databases PsycInfo, Scopus, PubMed, ERIC, Taylor and Francis, and Web of Science, the present study identified 128 core CSP articles with high reference values according to PRISMA guidance and the following results were obtained through quantitative analysis and qualitative comparative synthesis: (1) The number of studies on CSP published per year showed an upward trend; however, most focused on English language, whereas the studies on other languages were comparatively rare; (2) CSP was found to be affected by multiple factors, among which speech speed, semantics, word frequency, and phonological awareness were most frequently investigated; (3) the deficit in CSP capacity was widely recognized as a significant predictor and indicator of developmental disorders; (4) more studies were carried out on connected speech production than on perception; and (5) almost no longitudinal studies have ever been conducted among either native or non-native speakers. Therefore, future research is needed to explore the developmental trajectory of CSP skills of typically developing language learners and speakers with cognitive disorders over different periods of time. It is also necessary to deepen the understanding of the processing mechanism beyond their performance and the role played by phonological awareness and lexical representations in CSP.

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A systematic review of studies on connected speech processing: Trends, key findings, and implications

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Kania

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…The primary dataset used in this study named SweSSD consists of samples collected by the Functional consequences of misarticulation in children's connected speech project [15]. Isolated words uttered by children were recorded, the vocabulary was elicited from the articulation test LINUS [16] and the material for intelligibility testing, STI-CH [17].…”

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wav2vec2-based Speech Rating System for Children with Speech Sound Disorder

Getman¹,

Al-Ghezi²,

Voskoboinik³

et al. 2022

Interspeech 2022

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Speaking is a fundamental way of communication, developed at a young age. Unfortunately, some children with speech sound disorder struggle to acquire this skill, hindering their ability to communicate efficiently. Speech therapies, which could aid these children in speech acquisition, greatly rely on speech practice trials and accurate feedback about their pronunciations. To enable home therapy and lessen the burden on speech-language pathologists, we need a highly accurate and automatic way of assessing the quality of speech uttered by young children. Our work focuses on exploring the applicability of state-of-the-art self-supervised, deep acoustic models, mainly wav2vec2, for this task. The empirical results highlight that these self-supervised models are superior to traditional approaches and close the gap between machine and human performance.

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“…But calculating the intelligibility score based on a transcription is not straightforward because a clear target is missing (Flipsen, 2006; Flipsen, & Colvard, 2006; Lagerberg, Asberg, Hartelius, & Persson, 2014). Alternative methods have been proposed that rely on the number of (un)intelligible syllables or words, but these are not unproblematic either (Flipsen, 2006; Lagerberg et al, 2014; Strömbergsson, Holm, Edlund, Lagerberg, & McAllister, 2020).…”

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Spontaneous speech intelligibility: early cochlear implanted children versus their normally hearing peers at seven years of age

Boonen¹,

Kloots²,

Nurzia³

et al. 2021

J. Child Lang.

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Speaking intelligibly is an important achievement in children’s language development. How far do congenitally severe-to-profound hearing-impaired children who received a cochlear implant (CI) in the first two years of their life advance on the path to intelligibility in comparison to children with typical hearing (NH)? Spontaneous speech samples of children with CI and children with NH were orthographically transcribed by naïve transcribers. The entropy of the transcriptions was computed to analyze their degree of uniformity. The same samples were also rated on a continuous rating scale by another group of adult listeners. The transcriptions of the NH children’s speech were more uniform, i.e., had significantly lower entropy, than those of the CI children, suggesting that the latter group displayed lower intelligibility. This was confirmed by the ratings on the continuous scale. Despite the relatively restricted age ranges, older children reached better intelligibility scores in both groups.

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Audience Response System-Based Evaluation of Intelligibility of Children’s Connected Speech – Validity, Reliability and Listener Differences

Cited by 6 publications

References 39 publications

A systematic review of studies on connected speech processing: Trends, key findings, and implications

A systematic review of studies on connected speech processing: Trends, key findings, and implications

wav2vec2-based Speech Rating System for Children with Speech Sound Disorder

Spontaneous speech intelligibility: early cochlear implanted children versus their normally hearing peers at seven years of age

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