Research project

Automatic Analysis of Articulation Disorders of Children with Cleft Lip and Palate

For the evaluation of speech disorders of patients with cleft lip and palate objective, validated and simple evaluation methods are missing. In the clinical everyday life speech disorders are usually assessed by a subjective, auditive evaluation. This is only conditionally suitable for the clinical and scientific use. The automatic speech analysis, as used for automatic speech recognition systems, has already proved being a correct objective method of the global evaluation, i.e. for the quantification of the intelligibility. This could be transferred to the speech of children with cleft lip and palate. In this project a method for the automatic classification and quantification of different typical speech disorders is developed and validated. Such phenomena tension which occur in speech of children and adolescents with cleft lip and palate are hypernasality, a shift in localization of the articulation and changed articulatory tension. With such a method the influence on the intelligibility of these effect can be determined. Furthermore the quality of different therapeutic concepts can be measured.

Project manager:
PD Dr. med. Maria Schuster, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Elmar Nöth

Project participants:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Maier, Prof. Dr. med. dent. Ursula Hirschfelder, im Ruhestand, , Shozakai, Makoto

Keywords:
Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology; Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery; Medical Image Processing; Automatic Speech Recognition

Duration: 1.12.2006 - 30.11.2009

Sponsored by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Publications

Maier, Andreas ; Nöth, Elmar ; Nkenke, Emeka ; Schuster, Maria: Automatic Assessment of Children's Speech with Cleft Lip and Palate. In: Erjavec, Tomaz ; Zganec Gros, Jerneja (Ed.) : Language Technologies, IS-LTC 2006 (Fifth Slovenian and First International Language Technologies Conference Ljubljana, Slovenia October 9 - 10, 2006). Vol. 1, 1. Edition Ljubljana, Slovenia : Infornacijska Druzba (Information Society), 2006, pp 31-35.

Maier, Andreas ; Haderlein, Tino ; Hacker, Christian ; Nöth, Elmar ; Rosanowski, Frank ; Eysholdt, Ulrich ; Schuster, Maria: Automatische internetbasierte Evaluation der Verständlichkeit. In: Gross, Manfred ; Kruse, Friedrich E. (Ed.) : Aktuelle phoniatrisch-pädaudiologische Aspekte 2006 (23. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Phoniatrie und Pädaudiologie Heidelberg 15. - 17. September 2006). Vol. 14. Norderstedt : Books On Demand GmbH Norderstedt, 2006, pp 87-90. - ISBN 978-3-8334-6294-9

Schuster, Maria ; Maier, Andreas ; Haderlein, Tino ; Nkenke, Emeka ; Wohlleben, Ulrike ; Rosanowski, Frank ; Eysholdt, Ulrich ; Nöth, Elmar: Evaluation of speech intelligibility for children with cleft lip and palate by means of automatic speech recognition. In: International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 70/2006 (2006), pp 1741-1747

Maier, Andreas ; Hacker, Christian ; Nöth, Elmar ; Nkenke, Emeka ; Haderlein, Tino ; Rosanowski, Frank ; Schuster, Maria: Intelligibility of Children with Cleft Lip and Palate: Evaluation by Speech Recognition Techniques. In: Tang, Y.Y. ; Wang, S.P. ; Lorette, G. ; Yeung, D.S. ; Yan, H. (Ed.) : The 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006) Hong Kong 20 - 24 August, 2006). Vol. 4, 1. Edition Los Alamitos, California, Washington, Tokyo : IEEE Computer Society, 2006, pp 274-277. (IEEE Computer Society Order Number P2521) - ISBN 0-7695-2521-0

Schuster, Maria ; Maier, Andreas ; Vogt, Beate ; Nöth, Elmar ; Nkenke, Emeka ; Holst, Alexandra ; Eysholdt, Ulrich ; Rosanowski, Frank: Objektive und automatische Ermittlung der Verständlichkeit von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Lippen-Kiefer-Gaumenspalten. In: Gross, Manfred ; Kruse, Friedrich E. (Ed.) : Aktuelle phoniatrisch-pädaudiologische Aspekte 2006 (23. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Phoniatrie und Pädaudiologie Heidelberg 15. - 17. September 2006). Vol. 14. Norderstedt : Books On Demand GmbH Norderstedt, 2006, pp 43-46. - ISBN 978-3-8334-6294-8

Maier, Andreas: PEAKS - Programm zur Evaluation und Analyse Kindlicher Sprachstörungen - Bedienungsanleitung. Erlangen : FAU. 2006 (1). - Internal report. 28 pages

Nöth, Elmar ; Maier, Andreas ; Haderlein, Tino ; Riedhammer, Korbinian ; Rosanowski, Frank ; Schuster, Maria: Automatic Evaluation of Pathologic Speech - from Research to Routine Clinical Use. In: Matousek, Vaclav ; Mautner, Pavel (Ed.) : Text, Speech and Dialogue (10th International Conference, TSD 2007 Pilsen, Tschechien 3.-7.9.2007). Vol. 1, 1. Edition Berlin : Springer, 2007, pp 294-301. (Lecture Notes of Artificial Intelligence Vol. 4629) - ISBN 3-540-74627-7

Maier, Andreas ; Nöth, Elmar ; Wohlleben, Ulrike ; Eysholdt, Ulrich ; Schuster, Maria: Automatische Bewertung der Nasalitaet von Kindersprache. In: Gross, M. ; Kruse, F. (Ed.) : Aktuelle phoniatrische Aspekte (Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Phoniatrie und Paedaudiologie Innsbruck, Oesterreich 28.-30.9.2007). Vol. 15, 1. Edition Norderstedt : Books on Demand GmbH, 2007, pp 74-76. - ISBN 978-3-8334-8578-7

Maier, Andreas ; Haderlein, Tino ; Schuster, Maria ; Nkenke, Emeka ; Nöth, Elmar: Intelligibility is more than a single Word: Quantification of Speech Intelligibilty by ASR and Prosody. In: Matousek, Vaclav ; Mautner, Pavel (Ed.) : Text, Speech and Dialogue (10th International Conference, TSD 2007 Pilsen, Tschechien 3.-7.9.2007). Vol. 1, 1. Edition Berlin : Springer, 2007, pp 278-285. (Lecture Notes of Artificial Intelligence Vol. 4629) - ISBN 3-540-74627-7

Vogt, Beate ; Maier, Andreas ; Batliner, Anton ; Nöth, Elmar ; Nkenke, Emeka ; Eysholdt, Ulrich ; Schuster, Maria: Numerische Quantifizierung der Verständlichkeit von Schulkindern mit isolierter und kombinierter Gaumenspalte. In: HNO 55 (2007), No. 11, pp 891-898

Maier, Andreas ; Haderlein, Tino ; Schuster, Maria ; Nöth, Elmar: PEAKS-A Platform for Evaluation and Analysis of all Kinds of Speech Disorders. In: CD-Rom (Ed.) : Proc. 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Biomedical Technologies of the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (BMT 2007) (41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Biomedical Technologies of the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (BMT 2007) Aachen 26.-29.9.2007). Vol. 1, 1. Edition Berlin, New York : de Gruyter, 2007, pp no pagination.

Bocklet, Tobias ; Maier, Andreas ; Nöth, Elmar: Text-independent Speaker Identification using Temporal Patterns. In: Matousek, Vaclav ; Mautner, Pavel (Ed.) : Text, Speech and Dialogue (10th International Conference, TSD 2007 Pilsen, Tschechien 3.-7.9.2007). Vol. 1, 1. Edition Berlin : Springer, 2007, pp 318-325. (Lecture Notes of Artificial Intelligence Vol. 4629) - ISBN 3-540-74627-7

Bocklet, Tobias ; Maier, Andreas ; Nöth, Elmar: Age Determination of Children in Preschool and Primary School Age with GMM-Based Supervectors and Support Vector Machines/Regression. In: Sojka, Petr ; Horak, Ales ; Kopecek, Ivan ; Pala, Karel (Ed.) : Proceedings Text, Speech and Dialogue; 11th International Conference (Text, Speech and Dialogue; 11th International Conference Brno, Czech Republic 8.-12.9.2008). Vol. 1. Heidelberg : Springer, 2008, pp 253-260. (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, No. 5246) - ISBN 978-3-540-87390-7

Maier, Andreas ; Reuss, Alexander ; Hacker, Christian ; Schuster, Maria ; Nöth, Elmar: ANALYSIS OF HYPERNASAL SPEECH IN CHILDREN WITH CLEFT LIP AND PALATE. In: Sojka, Petr ; Horak, Ales ; Kopecek, Ivan ; Pala, Karel (Ed.) : Text, Speech and Dialogue (11th International Conference, TSD 2008 Brno, Tschechien 8.-12.9.2008). Vol. 1, 1. Edition Berlin : Springer, 2008, pp 389-396. (Lecture Notes of Artificial Intelligence Vol. 5246) - ISBN 3-540-87390-2

Maier, Andreas ; Hönig, Florian ; Hacker, Christian ; Schuster, Maria ; Nöth, Elmar: Automatic Evaluation of Characteristic Speech Disorders in Children with Cleft Lip and Palate. In: Interspeech (Org.) : Interspeech 2008 (Nineth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Brisbane 22.- 26.9.2008). Vol. 1, 1. Edition Brisbane : International Speech Communication Association, 2008, pp 1757-1760.