Speech Data Augmentation for Improving Phoneme Transcriptions of Aphasic Speech Using Wav2Vec 2.0 for the PSST ChallengeShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: The RaPID4 Workshop: Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments / [ed] Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Charalambos K. Themistocleous, Kristina Lundholm Fors, Athanasios Tsanas, Kathleen C. Fraser, Marseille, France, 2022, p. 62-70Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
As part of the PSST challenge, we explore how data augmentations, data sources, and model size affect phoneme transcription accuracy on speech produced by individuals with aphasia. We evaluate model performance in terms of feature error rate (FER) and phoneme error rate (PER). We find that data augmentations techniques, such as pitch shift, improve model performance. Additionally, increasing the size of the model decreases FER and PER. Our experiments also show that adding manually-transcribed speech from non-aphasic speakers (TIMIT) improves performance when Room Impulse Response is used to augment the data. The best performing model combines aphasic and non-aphasic data and has a 21.0% PER and a 9.2% FER, a relative improvement of 9.8% compared to the baseline model on the primary outcome measurement. We show that data augmentation, larger model size, and additional non-aphasic data sources can be helpful in improving automatic phoneme recognition models for people with aphasia.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Marseille, France, 2022. p. 62-70
Keywords [en]
aphasia, data augmentation, phoneme transcription, phonemes, speech, speech data augmentation, wav2vec 2.0
National Category
Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Research subject
Speech and Music Communication
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-314262Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85145876107OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-314262DiVA, id: diva2:1671565
Conference
4th RaPID Workshop: Resources and Processing of Linguistic, Para-Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Data from People with Various Forms of Cognitive/Psychiatric/Developmental Impairments, RAPID 2022, Marseille, France, Jun 25 2022
Note
QC 20220815
2022-06-172022-06-172023-08-14Bibliographically approved