Comparing speaker-dependent and speaker-adaptive acoustic models for recognizing dysarthric speech

ASSETS'07: Proceedings of the Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 255-256

  Rudzicz, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Experimentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC MODELS; DYSARTHRIC SPEECH; SPEAKER INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 42149102082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296843.1296899     Document Type: Conference Paper

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