机构:[1]Beihang Univ, Sch Biol Sci & Med Engn, Beijing 100191, Peoples R China[2]Nagoya Univ, Grad Sch Informat, Nagoya 4640823, Japan[3]Capital Med Univ, Beijing Tongren Hosp, Dept Otolaryngol Head & Neck Surg, Beijing 100730, Peoples R China临床科室耳鼻咽喉-头颈外科首都医科大学附属北京同仁医院首都医科大学附属同仁医院[4]Nagoya Univ, Informat Technol Ctr, Nagoya 4640823, Japan
The loss of speech function following a laryngectomy usually leads to severe physiological and psychological distress for laryngectomees. In clinical practice, most laryngectomees retain intact upper tract articulatory organs, emphasizing the significance of speech rehabilitation that utilizes articulatory motion information to effectively restore speech. This study proposed a deep learning-based end-to-end method for speech reconstruction using ultrasound tongue images. Initially, ultrasound tongue images and speech data were collected simultaneously with a designed Mandarin corpus. Subsequently, a speech reconstruction model was built based on adversarial neural networks. The model includes a pretrained feature extractor to process ultrasound images, an upsampling block to generate speech, and discriminators to ensure the similarity and fidelity of the reconstructed speech. Finally, both objective and subjective evaluations were conducted for the reconstructed speech. The reconstructed speech demonstrated high intelligibility in both Mandarin phonemes and tones. The character error rate of phonemes in automatic speech recognition was 0.2605, and tone error rate obtained from dictation tests was 0.1784, respectively. Objective results showed high similarity between the reconstructed and ground truth speech. Subjective perception results also indicated an acceptable level of naturalness. The proposed method demonstrates its capability to reconstruct tonal Mandarin speech from ultrasound tongue images. However, future research should concentrate on specific conditions of laryngectomees, aiming to enhance and optimize model performance. This will be achieved by enlarging training datasets, investigating the impact of ultrasound tongue imaging parameters, and further refining this method.
基金:
National Natural Science Foundation of China [32071315, 12372299]; Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Core Research for Evolutionary Science and Technology (CREST) Japan [JPMJCR19A3]
第一作者机构:[1]Beihang Univ, Sch Biol Sci & Med Engn, Beijing 100191, Peoples R China
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推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Li Fengji,Shen Fei,Ma Ding,et al.End-to-End Mandarin Speech Reconstruction Based on Ultrasound Tongue Images Using Deep Learning[J].IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING.2025,33:140-149.doi:10.1109/TNSRE.2024.3520498.
APA:
Li, Fengji,Shen, Fei,Ma, Ding,Zhou, Jie,Zhang, Shaochuan...&Niu, Haijun.(2025).End-to-End Mandarin Speech Reconstruction Based on Ultrasound Tongue Images Using Deep Learning.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING,33,
MLA:
Li, Fengji,et al."End-to-End Mandarin Speech Reconstruction Based on Ultrasound Tongue Images Using Deep Learning".IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING 33.(2025):140-149