Development of a two-stage procedure for the automatic recognition of dysfluencies in the speech of children who stutter: II. ANN recognition of repetitions and prolongations with supplied word segment markers

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1085-1096

  Howell, Peter ^a   Sackin, Stevie ^b   Glenn, Kazan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

ANNs; Assessment; Stuttering

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STUTTERING;

EID: 0030880030     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4005.1085     Document Type: Article

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