Acoustic variability in dysarthria and computer speech recognition

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 307-327

  Blaney, Bronagh ^a   Wilson, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Computer speech recognition; Dysarthria; Variability

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOICE;

EID: 0034082074     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200050024001     Document Type: Article

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