A Novel Approach for Intelligibility Assessment in Dysarthric Subjects

Dysarthria is a motor speech impairment caused by muscle weakness. Individuals, with this condition, are unable to control rapid movement of the velum leading to reduction in intelligibility, audibility, naturalness and efficiency of vocal communication. Systems that can assess intelligibility of dysarthric speech can help clinicians diagnose the impact of therapy and medication. In the paper, we propose a usable novel method to assess...