arXiv:2602.08696v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Dysarthric speech recognition is limited by high speaker variability and scarce labeled data. Existing synthesis methods often couple speaker...
By Haoshen Wang, Xueli Zhong, Bingbing Lin, Jia Huang, Xingduo Pan, Shengxiang Liang, Nizhuan Wang, Wai Ting Siok
arXiv:2603. 15988v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dysarthric speech quality assessment (DSQA) is critical for clinical diagnostics and inclusive speech technologies.
By Jaesung Bae, Xiuwen Zheng, Minje Kim, Chang D. Yoo, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
arXiv:2606. 18645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dysarthria is a speech disorder marked by reduced intelligibility and communicative effectiveness.
By Kaimeng Jia, Minzhu Tu, Zengrui Jin, Siyin Wang, Chao Zhang
arXiv:2606. 19797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dysarthric speech recognition is crucial for facilitating effective communication among individuals with dysarthria.
By Paban Sapkota, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv:2606. 19791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The challenge associated with recognizing dysarthric speech primarily arises from pronounced acoustic variability attributed to impaired articulatory precision.
By Paban Sapkota, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Mikko Kurimo, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Shrikanth Narayanan
The paper evaluates whether audio‑language models can use multimodal clinical context to improve dysarthric speech recognition. Using a benchmark built on the Speech Accessibility Project dataset, the authors test diagnosis labels, clinician ratings, and detailed clinical descriptions as prompts for nine models. They find that these prompts yield negligible or negative effects on word error rate, though fine‑tuning with LoRA and mixed prompt formats reduces WER by 52% and benefits certain subgroups such as Down syndrome and mild‑severity speakers.
By Pehu\'en Moure, Niclas Pokel, Bilal Bounajma, Yingqiang Gao, Roman Boehringer, Longbiao Cheng, Shih-Chii Liu