Detecting and analysing spontaneous oral cancer speech in the wild

Bence Mark Halpern, Rob van Son, Michiel van den Brekel, Odette Scharenborg

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Abstract

Oral cancer speech is a disease which impacts more than half a million people worldwide every year. Analysis of oral cancer speech has so far focused on read speech. In this paper, we 1) present and 2) analyse a three-hour long spontaneous oral cancer speech dataset collected from YouTube. 3) We set baselines for an oral cancer speech detection task on this dataset. The analysis of these explainable machine learning baselines shows that sibilants and stop consonants are the most important indicators for spontaneous oral cancer speech detection.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInterspeech 2020
PublisherInternational Speech Communication Association
Pages4826-4830
Volume2020-October
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Event21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2020 - Shanghai, Switzerland
Duration: 25 Oct 202029 Oct 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Conference

Conference21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2020
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityShanghai
Period25/10/202029/10/2020

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