Halpern, Bence Mark; Rebernik, Teja; Tienkamp, Thomas; Rob van Son; Michiel van den Brekel; Wieling, Martijn; Witjes, Max; Scharenborg, Odette
arXiv (Cornell University),
03/2022
Paper, Journal Article
We present an articulatory synthesis framework for the synthesis and manipulation of oral cancer speech for clinical decision making and alleviation of patient stress. Objective and subjective evaluations demonstrate that the framework has acceptable naturalness and is worth further investigation. A subsequent subjective vowel and consonant identification experiment showed that the articulatory synthesis system can manipulate the articulatory trajectories so that the synthesised speech reproduces problems present in the ground truth oral cancer speech.
