Automatic speech recognition and a review of its functioning with dysarthric speech

AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 48-60

  Rosen, Kristin ^a   Yampolsky, Sasha ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION (AAC); AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033891274     PISSN: 07434618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07434610012331278904     Document Type: Article

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