Improving the intelligibility of dysarthric speech

Speech Communication

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 743-759

  Kain, Alexander B ^a   Hosom, John Paul ^a   Niu, Xiaochuan ^a   van Santen, Jan P H ^a   Fried Oken, Melanie ^a   Staehely, Janice ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysarthria; Intelligibility; Speech modification; Speech processing; Speech transformation

Indexed keywords

DYSARTHRIA; SPEECH MODIFICATION; SPEECH TRANSFORMATION; TRANSFORMATION FUNCTIONS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WORD PROCESSING;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 34447635527     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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