Intelligibility of laryngectomees' substitute speech: Automatic speech recognition and subjective rating

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 263, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 188-193

  Schuster, Maria ^a   Haderlein, Tino ^a   Nöth, Elmar ^a   Lohscheller, Jörg ^a   Eysholdt, Ulrich ^a   Rosanowski, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Laryngectomy; Speech intelligibility; Substitute speech

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX DISORDER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; RECORDING; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STANDARD; VOICE;

HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 31544459232     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-005-0974-6     Document Type: Article

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