A Deep Learning Algorithm for Objective Assessment of Hypernasality in Children With Cleft Palate.
Journal:
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Published Date:
Oct 1, 2021
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Evaluation of hypernasality requires extensive perceptual training by clinicians and extending this training on a large scale internationally is untenable; this compounds the health disparities that already exist among children with cleft. In this work, we present the objective hypernasality measure (OHM), a speech-based algorithm that automatically measures hypernasality in speech, and validate it relative to a group of trained clinicians.