A speech-controlled environmental control system for people with severe dysarthria

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 586-593

  Hawley, Mark S ^a   Enderby, Pam ^b   Green, Phil ^b   Cunningham, Stuart ^a,b   Brownsell, Simon ^a   Carmichael, James ^b   Parker, Mark ^b   Hatzis, Athanassios ^b   O'Neill, Peter ^a   Palmer, Rebecca ^a,b  

^a BARNSLEY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electronic assistive technology; Environmental control system; Speech recognition; Training

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISEASES; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); ELECTRONIC ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEM (ECS); SWITCH SCANNING SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TRAINING; VOCALIZATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; DYSARTHRIA; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33847306360     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.06.009     Document Type: Article

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