The Post-Stroke Speech Transcription (PSST) Challenge

Robert C. Gale, Mikala Fleegle, Gerasimos Fergadiotis, Steven Bedrick


Abstract
We present the outcome of the Post-Stroke Speech Transcription (PSST) challenge. For the challenge, we prepared a new data resource of responses to two confrontation naming tests found in AphasiaBank, extracting audio and adding new phonemic transcripts for each response. The challenge consisted of two tasks. Task A asked challengers to build an automatic speech recognizer (ASR) for phonemic transcription of the PSST samples, evaluated in terms of phoneme error rate (PER) as well as a finer-grained metric derived from phonological feature theory, feature error rate (FER). The best model had a 9.9% FER / 20.0% PER, improving on our baseline by a relative 18% and 24%, respectively. Task B approximated a downstream assessment task, asking challengers to identify whether each recording contained a correctly pronounced target word. Challengers were unable to improve on the baseline algorithm; however, using this algorithm with the improved transcripts from Task A resulted in 92.8% accuracy / 0.921 F1, a relative improvement of 2.8% and 3.3%, respectively.
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2022.rapid-1.6
Volume:
Proceedings of the RaPID Workshop - Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments - within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
Year:
2022
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Marseille, France
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Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Charalambos K. Themistocleous, Kristina Lundholm Fors, Athanasios Tsanas, Kathleen C. Fraser
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RaPID
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European Language Resources Association
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41–55
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.rapid-1.6
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Robert C. Gale, Mikala Fleegle, Gerasimos Fergadiotis, and Steven Bedrick. 2022. The Post-Stroke Speech Transcription (PSST) Challenge. In Proceedings of the RaPID Workshop - Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments - within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 41–55, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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The Post-Stroke Speech Transcription (PSST) Challenge (Gale et al., RaPID 2022)
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.rapid-1.6.pdf
Code
 psst-challenge/psstbaseline
Data
LibriSpeech