Automatic evaluation of prosodic features of tracheoesophageal substitute voice

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 264, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1315-1321

  Haderlein, Tino ^a   Nöth, Elmar ^a   Toy, Hikmet ^a   Batliner, Anton ^a   Schuster, Maria ^a   Eysholdt, Ulrich ^a   Hornegger, Joachim ^a   Rosanowski, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Laryngectomy; Substitute speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; LOUDNESS; MALE; NOISE; PILOT STUDY; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VOICE;

AGED; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; HUMANS; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL; SPEECH, ESOPHAGEAL; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 34848840319     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-007-0363-4     Document Type: Article

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