Adaptación de ASR al habla de personas con síndrome de Down

  1. Fernández-García, David
  2. Cardeñoso-Payo, Valentín
  3. González-Ferreras, César
  4. Escudero-Mancebo, David
Revista:
Procesamiento del lenguaje natural

ISSN: 1135-5948

Año de publicación: 2024

Número: 73

Páginas: 209-220

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

The speech of people with intellectual disabilities (ID) poses enormous challenges to automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, making it difficult for a particularly sensitive population to access information services. This work studies the difficulties of ASR systems in recognizing the speech of ID people and shows how this limitation can be combated with model fine-tuning strategies. The performance of ASR based on whisper (v2 and v3) is measured with a reference corpus of typical speech and DI speech, verifying that there are important and significant differences. By applying fine-tuning techniques, performance for DI speakers improves by at least 30 percentage points. Our results show that the inclusion of the voice of ID people in the training corpora is essential to improve the effectiveness of ASRs.

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