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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2023

The development of an automatic speech recognition model using interview data from long-term care for older adults.

Coen Hacking, Hilde Verbeek, Jan P H Hamers, Sil Aarts

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Coen HackingDepartment of Health Services Research, CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6519-8308
Hilde VerbeekDepartment of Health Services Research, CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Jan P H HamersDepartment of Health Services Research, CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Sil AartsDepartment of Health Services Research, CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

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objectiveIn long-term care (LTC) for older adults, interviews are used to collect client perspectives that are often recorded and transcribed verbatim, which is a time-consuming, tedious task. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) could provide a solution; however, current ASR systems are not effective for certain demographic groups. This study aims to show how data from specific groups, such as older adults or people with accents, can be used to develop an effective ASR. MATERIALS AND

methodsAn initial ASR model was developed using the Mozilla Common Voice dataset. Audio and transcript data (34 h) from interviews with residents, family, and care professionals on quality of care were used. Interview data were continuously processed to reduce the word error rate (WER).

resultsDue to background noise and mispronunciations, an initial ASR model had a WER of 48.3% on interview data. After finetuning using interview data, the average WER was reduced to 24.3%. When tested on speech data from the interviews, a median WER of 22.1% was achieved, with residents displaying the highest WER (22.7%). The resulting ASR model was at least 6 times faster than manual transcription. DISCUSSION: The current method decreased the WER substantially, verifying its efficacy. Moreover, using local transcription of audio can be beneficial to the privacy of participants.

conclusionsThe current study shows that interview data from LTC for older adults can be effectively used to improve an ASR model. While the model output does still contain some errors, researchers reported that it saved much time during transcription.

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Speech PerceptionSpeech Recognition SoftwareAgedHumansLong-Term CareSpeechartificial intelligenceautomatic speech recognitionlong-term carenursing homesolder adults

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