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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Schmidt
E-Mail: gus@tf.uni-kiel.de
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Faculty of Engineering
Institute for Electrical Engineering and Information Engineering
Digital Signal Processing and System Theory
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24143 Kiel, Germany
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We are delighted to announce that Marten Finck has been awarded the GaS prize for his Master's thesis on "Evaluation of Speech Quality Using Machine Learning".
In his work, he investigated possible side effects of magnetic resonance-guided focussed ultrasound treatment (MRgFUS) on speech quality in patients with neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease and essential tremor. This innovative and non-invasive treatment method is used to reduce tremor, i.e. the shaking of limbs.
To evaluate the effects on speech, pre- and post-operative speech recordings of 56 patients were analysed: Speech quality was assessed in five categories (monotony, clarity, fluency, auditory effort and vocal tremor) through a survey with 21 participants and used to create a convolutional neural network (CNN). This generates an objective assessment of speech quality using mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs), fundamental frequency and loudness. A mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.81 on a scale of 0 to 10 was achieved, compared to a standard deviation of 0.67 for the survey participants compared to a reference assessment. The evaluation of the survey revealed minor positive and negative changes in speech quality, which were balanced overall and tended to indicate natural speech variations in connection with the patients' underlying illnesses.
Congratulations on this well-deserved honour!