Effectiveness of using discrete utterance speech recognition software

AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 137-146

  Kotler, Ava Lee ^a   Tam, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Assistive communication devices; Effectiveness; Physical impairment; Rate; Software; Speech impairment; Speech recognition; Writing aids

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR NONVOCAL PERSONS; COMPUTER KEYBOARD SUBSTITUTES (HANDICAPPED AID); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; DICTATING MACHINES; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

ASSISTIVE COMMUNICATION DEVICES; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; TEXT GENERATION; WRITING AIDS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036710375     PISSN: 07434618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07434610212331281231     Document Type: Article

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