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Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for the Diagnosis of pronunciation of Speech Sound Disorders in Korean children
Ahn, Taekyung, Hong, Yeonjung, Im, Younggon, Kim, Do Hyung, Kang, Dayoung, Jeong, Joo Won, Kim, Jae Won, Kim, Min Jung, Cho, Ah-ra, Jang, Dae-Hyun, Nam, Hosung
Generally, children with speech sound disorders (SSDs) are clinically diagnosed by speech-language pathologists who transcribe the child's speech and manually analyse pronunciation errors. Although there have been several attempts to automatically analyse pronunciation errors in child SSD speech [1, 2], traditional automatic speech recognition (ASR) training methods were unable to achieve the desired recognition performance to replace human annotations. Training traditional ASR models requires a substantial amount of accurately annotated speech data. In addition, traditional ASR models require a pronunciation dictionary called a lexicon for combining in an acoustic model with learned speech features via phonetic symbols. A language model (LM) that has computed the probability of word chains based on correct grammar and vocabulary is also required [3]. For child SSD speech data, it is difficult and timeconsuming not only to gather a transcribed speech but also to build hand-designed pronunciation dictionaries with several pronunciations having the same spelling. However, over a few short years, the development of the end-to-end-based (e2e-based) model training method generated new possibilities in the spectrum of ASR [4, 5].