Fully automatic assessment of speech of children with cleft lip and palate

Informatica (Ljubljana)

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 477-482

  Maier, Andreas ^a   Nöth, Elmar ^a   Batliner, Anton ^a   Nkenke, Emeka ^a   Schuster, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic evaluation; Children's speech; Pathologic speech

Indexed keywords

PATHOLOGY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH EVALUATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH RECOGNIZER;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33846422711     PISSN: 03505596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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