The DesPho-APaDy Project: Developing an Acoustic-phonetic Characterization of Dysarthric Speech in French

This paper presents the rationale, objectives and advances of an on-going project (the DesPho-APaDy project funded by the French National Agency of Research) which aims to provide a systematic and quantified description of French dysarthric speech, over a large population of patients and three dysarthria types (related to the parkinson's disease, the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis disease, and a pure cerebellar alteration). The two French corpora of dysarthric patients, from which the speech data have been selected for analysis purposes, are firstly described. Secondly, this paper discusses and outlines the requirement of a structured and organized computerized platform in order to store, organize and make accessible (for selected and protected usage) dysarthric speech corpora and associated patients' clinical information (mostly disseminated in different locations: labs, hospitals, ...). The design of both a computer database and a multi-field query interface is proposed for...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Cécile Fougeron, Lise Crevier-Buchman, Corinne Fredouille, Alain Ghio, Christine Meunier, Claude Chevrie-Muller, Jean-François Bonastre, Antonia Colazo-Simon, Céline Delooze, Danielle Duez, Cédric Gendrot, Thierry Legou, Nathalie Lévêque, Claire Pillot-Loiseau, Serge Pinto, Gilles Pouchoulin, Danièle Robert, Jacqueline Vaissière, François Viallet, Coralie Vincent
• Keywords: Dysarthric Speech, Dysarthric Speech Corpora, Education, French Dysarthric Speech, LREC 2010