Automatic quantification of speech intelligibility of adults with oral squamous cell carcinoma

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 151-156

  Windrich, M ^a   Maier, A ^a   Kohler, R ^a   Noth E ^a   Nkenke, E ^a   Eysholdt, U ^a   Schuster, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Intelligibility; Oral carcinoma; Perceptual assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMATISM; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 42449107046     PISSN: 10217762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000121004     Document Type: Article

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