Identification (biology)

Physics

Hidden Markov model

Stuttering

Term (time)

Biology

Algorithm

Recurrent neural network

Residual

Long short term memory

Philosophy

Artificial intelligence

Natural language processing

Computer science

Linguistics

Botany

Quantum mechanics

Speech recognition

Artificial neural network

Stuttering is a speech impediment affecting tens of millions of people on an everyday basis. Even with its commonality, there is minimal data and research on the identification and classification of stuttered speech. This paper tackles the problem of detection and classification of different forms of stutters. As opposed to most existing works that identify stutters with language models, our work proposes a model that relies solely on acoustic features, allowing for identification of several variations of stutter disfluencies without the need for speech recognition. Our model uses a deep residual network and bidirectional long short-term memory layers to classify different types of stutters and achieves an average miss rate of 10.03%, outperforming the state-of-the-art by almost 27%.

Detecting Multiple Speech Disfluencies Using a Deep Residual Network with Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory