AI System Beats Humans at Understanding Chinese Speech Disorders, Largest Study Shows

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Overview

• Chinese Dysarthria Speech Database (CDSD) created with 133 hours of speech data
• 44 speakers contributed recordings
• Achieved 16.4% Character Error Rate in speech recognition
• Outperforms human transcription accuracy of 20.45%
• Database will be publicly available

Plain English Explanation

Dysarthric speech recognition helps people who have trouble speaking clearly due to medical conditions. Think of it like teaching a computer to understand someone with a strong accen...

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