An automatic version of the post-laryngectomy telephone test

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4629 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 238-245

  Haderlein, Tino ^a   Riedhammer, Korbinian ^a   Maier, Andreas ^a   Nöth, Elmar ^a   Toy, Hikmet ^a   Rosanowski, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

POST-LARYNGECTOMY TELEPHONE TEST; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL (TE) SPEECH;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 38049161651     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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