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A Dutch Dysarthric Speech Database for Individualized Speech Therapy Research
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016)
Abstract
We present a new Dutch dysarthric speech database containing utterances of neurological patients with Parkinsons disease, traumatic brain injury and cerebrovascular accident. The speech content is phonetically and linguistically diversified by using numerous structured sentence and word lists. Containing more than 6 hours of mildly to moderately dysarthric speech, this database can be used for research on dysarthria and for developing and testing speech-to-text systems designed for medical applications. Current activities aimed at extending this database are also discussed.