Small-vocabulary speech recognition using surface electromyography

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1242-1259

  Betts, Bradley J ^a   Binsted, Kim ^b   Jorgensen, Charles ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Hawai'i at Manoa   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioelectric; Electromyography; EMG; EMG speech recognition; First responder; Pattern recognition; SCBA

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

BIOELECTRIC; EMG; EMG SPEECH RECOGNITION; FIRST RESPONDER; SCBA;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33750697600     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2006.08.012     Document Type: Article

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