מדידת תרומת עיצורים להבנת מילים על ידי הסתר קולי

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2609.12122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Consonants contribute unequally to whether a word is understood. Given the limited time available for therapy, ranking consonants by contribution to intelligibility helps prioritize intervention targets in motor speech disorders. However, measuring this contribution relies on perceptual studies that are difficult to scale. This paper presents a scalable method that measures consonant contribution using acoustic masking. We silence one consonant at a time in an isolated word and test whether an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model still recognizes the word. We define a consonant's contribution score as the proportion of its masked instances for which the word becomes misrecognized, which we refer to as the mask-induced misrecognition rate