Intelligibility of children with cleft lip and palate: Evaluation by speech recognition techniques

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 274-277

  Maier, Andreas ^a   Hacker, Christian ^a   Nöth, Elmar ^a   Nkenke, Emeka ^a   Haderlein, Tino ^a   Rosanowski, Frank ^a   Schuster, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH EVALUATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SOUND RECORDING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SURGERY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33846406445     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2006.718     Document Type: Conference Paper

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