Automatic detection and classification of phoneme repetitions using HTK toolkit

The therapy of stuttering people is based on a proper selection of texts and then on a practice of their articulation by reading or narration. The texts are chosen on the basis of kind and intensity of dysfluencies appearing in a speech. Thus there is still a requirement to find effective and objective methods of analysis of dysfluent speech. Hidden Markov models are stochastic models widely used in recognition of any patterns appearing in a signal. In the work a simple monophone system based on the Hidden Markov Model Toolkit was built and tested in the context of detection and classification of phoneme repetitions - a common speech disorder in the Polish language.