摘要：Cleft lip and palate (CLP) may cause functional limitations even after adequate surgical and non-surgical treatment, speech disorder being one of them. Until now, an automatic, objective means to determine and quantify the intelligibility did not exist. We have created an automatic evaluation system that assesses speech, based on the result of an automatic speech recognizer. It was applied to 35 recordings of children with CLP. A subjective evaluation of the intelligibility was performed by four experts and confronted to the automatic speech evaluation. It complied with experts’ rating of intelligibility. Furthermore we present the results obtained on a control group of 45 recordings of normal children and compare these results with those of the CLP children.
