# Manipulation of oral cancer speech using neural articulatory synthesis

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.17072 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.17072/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 32 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 31 Mar 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Towards Identity Preserving Normal to Dysarthric Voice Conversion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.08213/) (2021)
- [Pathological voice adaptation with autoencoder-based voice conversion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.08427/) (2021)
- [An Objective Evaluation Framework for Pathological Speech Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.00308/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present an articulatory synthesis framework for the synthesis and manipulation of oral cancer speech for clinical decision making and alleviation of patient stress. Objective and subjective evaluations demonstrate that the framework has acceptable naturalness and is worth further investigation. A subsequent subjective vowel and consonant identification experiment showed that the articulatory synthesis system can manipulate the articulatory trajectories so that the synthesised speech reproduces problems present in the ground truth oral cancer speech.