Abstract:An HMM labeler has been extended to detect poor correspondence between phonetic labels and underlying acoustic data. This paper will present work extending the labeler to model perceptual confusions of human listeners from a forced-choice word identification experiment which used dysarthric speech. The speech and perception data are from the Nemours Dysarthric Speech database [Menendez et al., Proceedings of ICSLP 96, SaP2P1.19 (1996)]. The perceptual data comprise distributions of listener identification resp… Show more
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