Published July 6, 2022 | Version 1.0
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Kassel State of Fluency (KSoF) dataset

  • 1. Technische Hochschule Nürnberg
  • 2. Kasseler Stottertherapie
  • 3. Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Contributors

  • 1. Technische Hochschule Nürnberg

Description

Stuttering is a complex speech disorder that negatively affects an individual’s ability to communicate effectively. Persons who stutter (PWS) often suffer considerably under the condition and seek help through therapy. Fluency shaping is a therapy approach where PWSs learn to modify their speech to help them to overcome their stutter. Mastering such speech techniques takes time and practice, even after therapy. Shortly after therapy, success is evaluated highly, but relapse rates are high. To be able to monitor speech behavior over a long time, the ability to detect stuttering events and modifications in speech could help PWSs and speech pathologists to track the level of fluency. Monitoring could create the ability to intervene early by detecting lapses in fluency. To the best of our knowledge, no public dataset is available that contains speech from people who underwent stuttering therapy that changed the style of speaking. This work introduces the Kassel State of Fluency (KSoF), a therapy-based dataset containing over 5500 clips of PWSs. The clips were labeled with six stuttering-related event types: blocks, prolongations, sound repetitions, word repetitions, interjections, and – specific to therapy – speech modifications. The audio was recorded during therapy sessions at the Institut der Kasseler Stottertherapie. The data will be made available for research purposes upon request.

Notes

How to get the data:

  • be a non-profit/ academic researcher
  • fill out the EULA
  • send the signed EULA back to us

The signed EULA must be sent to us before we can give you acces to the data. Please follow the instructions described on the KSoF website for this. You can find the EULA here under License or on the website

Please check out  https://th-nuernberg.github.io/kassel-state-of-fluency/index for more information. 

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Related works

Is described by
Preprint: 10.48550/arXiv.2203.05383 (DOI)

References

  • Sebastian P. Bayerl, Alexander Wolff von Gudenberg, Florian Hönig, Elmar Nöth, Korbinian Riedhammer: "KSoF: The Kassel State of Fluency Dataset - A Therapy Centered Dataset of Stuttering", Proceedings LREC 2022, Marseille, France, 2022.