Paper ID: 2203.17072

Manipulation of oral cancer speech using neural articulatory synthesis

Bence Mark Halpern, Teja Rebernik, Thomas Tienkamp, Rob van Son, Michiel van den Brekel, Martijn Wieling, Max Witjes, Odette Scharenborg

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.

Submitted: Mar 31, 2022