Automatic measurement of speech fluency
First Claim
1. A system comprising:
- a computer-readable medium having stored thereon model data that includes at least one model of a characteristic of a language spoken by a patient; and
a speech analyzer configured to analyze an audio sample including speech of the patient, identify phonemes from the speech of the patient, analyze the identified phonemes to identify prosodic characteristics of the speech of the patient using the model, and automatically measure fluency of the speech of the patient based on the prosodic characteristics.
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Abstract
Techniques are described for automatically measuring fluency of a patient'"'"'s speech based on prosodic characteristics thereof. The prosodic characteristics may include statistics regarding silent pauses, filled pauses, repetitions, or fundamental frequency of the patient'"'"'s speech. The statistics may include a count, average number of occurrences, duration, average duration, frequency of occurrence, standard deviation, or other statistics. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an audio sample that includes speech of a patient, analyzing the audio sample to identify prosodic characteristics of the speech of the patient, and automatically measuring fluency of the speech of the patient based on the prosodic characteristics. These techniques may present several advantages, such as objectively measuring fluency of a patient'"'"'s speech without requiring a manual transcription or other manual intervention in the analysis process.
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18 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
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a computer-readable medium having stored thereon model data that includes at least one model of a characteristic of a language spoken by a patient; and a speech analyzer configured to analyze an audio sample including speech of the patient, identify phonemes from the speech of the patient, analyze the identified phonemes to identify prosodic characteristics of the speech of the patient using the model, and automatically measure fluency of the speech of the patient based on the prosodic characteristics. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A device comprising:
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a computer-readable medium having stored thereon model data that includes at least one model of a characteristic of a language spoken by a patient; and one or more processors configured to analyze an audio sample including speech of the patient, identify phonemes from the speech of the patient, analyze the identified phonemes to identify prosodic characteristics of the speech of the patient using the model, and automatically measure fluency of the speech of the patient based on the prosodic characteristics. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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