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Calculating phonemic accuracy automatically
What is it about?
Phonetic transcription helps speech-language pathologists hear and remember speech sound errors their patients make. Unfortunately, it can be very time-consuming to summarize these transcriptions to a score. In this article, we showed how common calculations can be done automatically with the so-called Levenshtein edit distance. We analyzed speech samples from 65 people with aphasia to demonstrate the process.
Why is it important?
Automated calculations agreed very well with manual calculations and were done in a fraction of the time. We recommended that speech-language pathologists and researchers start using the edit distance measure and we shared links to online software for doing the calculations.