Disordered speech assessment using automatic methods based on quantitative measures

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1400-1409

  Gu, Lingyun ^a   Harris, John G ^a,c   Shrivastav, Rahul ^b   Sapienza, Christine ^b  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Hybrid Signal Processing Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropomorphic; Objective speech quality measures; Pathology; Subjective speech quality measures

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC; OBJECTIVE SPEECH QUALITY MEASURES; SUBJECTIVE SPEECH QUALITY MEASURES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COSTS; PATHOLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 27844601038     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.1400     Document Type: Article

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