Evaluation of speech intelligibility for children with cleft lip and palate by means of automatic speech recognition

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1741-1747

  Schuster, Maria ^a   Maier, Andreas ^a   Haderlein, Tino ^a   Nkenke, Emeka ^a   Wohlleben, Ulrike ^a   Rosanowski, Frank ^a   Eysholdt, Ulrich ^a   Nöth, Elmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Cleft lip and palate; Intelligibility; Speech disorders

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CHILD; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 33748153790     PISSN: 01655876     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2006.05.016     Document Type: Article

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