WeC.SS - Objective assessment of voice and speech quality
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 , Astrid Plaza hotel, Room Scala 1
Session Chairs: Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete and Hugo Van hamme, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
In the clinical practice of treatment of voice and speech disorders, speech is evaluated by a human being. This assessment is subjective and suffers from intra- and interspeaker variation. Possible causes are adaptation of the clinician to the patient's speech, trends, mood, ... Objective assessment is important to medical research, to policy makers who need to approve treatments, to professional speakers and finally to the patients. Similar problems of objective speech assessment apply in the practice of speech therapy for patients with stammer, with pronunciation problems, with dyslexia … where anomalies in the speech production extend beyond the articulator or acoustic level. Within the speech technology research community there is a growing awareness that speech science and engineering can provide answers to make such assessments more objective.
Besides contributed papers that will be presented either in an oral or a poster session (depending on the number of accepted papers), the special session will also include announcements of international and national programs in the field (COST, new institutes, projects, …) and an exhibition/demonstration of products and realizations relevant to the session will be organized.
Program
13:30 – 15:30: Poster session
Women's Vocal Aging: a Longitudinal Approach, Markus Brückl, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Effect of Intensive Voice Therapy on Vocal Tremor for Parkinson Speakers, Laurence Cnockaert, Jean Schoentgen, Canan Ozsancak, Pascal Auzou, and Francis Grenez, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique, CH de Boulogne sur Mer, France, and Groupe Hopale, Berck-sur-Mer, France
Assessment of vocal dysperiodicities in connected disordered speech, Ali Alpan, Abdellah Kacha, Francis Grenez and Jean Schoentgen, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Effects of FE Modelled Consequences of Tonsillectomy on Perceptual Evaluation of Voice, Anne-Maria Laukkanen, Jaromír Horáček, Pavel Švancara, Elina Lehtinen, University of Tampere, Finland and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Speech quality after major surgery of the oral cavity and oropharynx with microvascular soft tissue reconstruction, Irma Verdonck-de Leeuw, Louis ten Bosch, Li Ying Chao, Rico Rinkel, Pepijn Borggreven, Lou Boves, Rene Leemans, VU University Medical Center and Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Voice fatigue and use of speech recognition: A study of voice quality ratings, Christel de Bruijn and Sandra Whiteside, University of Central England and University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Complementary approaches for voice disorder assessment, Jean-François Bonastre, Corinne Fredouille, Alain Ghio, Antoine Giovanni, Gilles Pouchoulin, Joana Révis, Bernard Teston and Ping Yu, University of Avignon and Aix-Marseille University, France
Frequency Study for the Characterization of the Dysphonic Voices, Gilles Pouchoulin, Corinne Fredouille, Jean-François Bonastre, Alain Ghio and Antoine Giovanni, University of Avignon and Aix-Marseille University, France
Acoustic correlates of laryngeal-muscle fatigue: Findings for a phonometric prevention of acquired voice pathologies, Victor J. Boucher, Université de Montréal, Canada
Automatic Scoring of the Intelligibility in Patients with Cancer of the Oral Cavity, Andreas Maier, Maria Schuster, Anton Batliner, Elmar Nöth and Emeka Nkenke, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Automatic Assessment of Children's Reading Level, Jacques Duchateau, Leen Cleuren, Hugo Van hamme and Pol Ghesquière, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Using Waveform Matching Techniques in the Measurement of Shimmer in Voiced Signals, Carlos Ferrer, María E. Hernández-Díaz and Eduardo González, Central University of Las Villas, Santa Clara de Cuba
Analysis of the Impact of Analogue Telephone Channel on MFCC Parameters for Voice Pathology Detection, Rubén Fraile, Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente, Nicolás Sáenz-Lechón, Víctor Osma-Ruíz and Pedro Gómez-Vilda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Objective Parameters from Videokymographic Images: A User-Friendly Interface, Claudia Manfredi, Leonardo Bocchi, Giovanna Cantarella, Giorgio Peretti, Gabriele Guidi and Vincenzo Mezzatesta, University of Firenze, University of Milano and University of Brescia, Italy
13:30 – 15:30: demonstrations (not in IS2007 proceedings)
During the session, additional posters and demonstrations will be presented by the following organizations:
UMCG, Groningen, The Netherlands, Videokymography, Q. Qiu
RWTH Aachen, Germany, Objective voice function analysis: Measurement devices for voice range profile and larynx position assessment, Malte Kob
UPM, Madrid, Spain, Nicolás Sáenz-Lechón
University of Erlangen, Germany, PEAKS - Program for Evaluation of All Kinds of Speech Disorders, Elmar Nöth and Andreas Maier
Laryngograph LTD, Xinghui Hu
COST 2103, Advanced voice function assessment, Yannis Stylianou
OSTT, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Toni Rietveld
Contact
Session organizers:
Yannis Stylianou
Department of Computer Science
University of Crete, Greece
Hugo Van hamme
Department of Electrical Engineering
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
