Abstract
Lexical stress is a key diagnostic marker of disordered speech as it strongly affects speech perception. In this paper we introduce an automated method to classify between the different lexical stress patterns in children's speech. A deep neural network is used to classify between strong-weak (SW), weak-strong (WS) and equal-stress (SS/WW) patterns in English by measuring the articulation change between the two successive syllables. The deep neural network architecture is trained using a set of acoustic features derived from pitch, duration and intensity measurements along with the energies in different frequency bands. We compared the performance of the deep neural classifier to a traditional single hidden layer MLP. Results show that the deep neural classifier outperforms the traditional MLP. The accuracy of the deep neural system is approximately 85% when classifying between the unequal stress patterns (SW/WS) and greater than 70% when classifying both equal and unequal stress patterns.
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