Speech assistive technology to improve the interaction of dysarthric speakers with machines

2008 3rd International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing, ISCCSP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1150-1154

  Yakcoub, Mohammed Sidi ^a   Selouani, Sid Ahmed ^b   O'Shaughnessy, Douglas ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Dysarthria; Grafting technique; Hidden Markov models; Mean opinion score; Text to speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DYSARTHRIA; GRAFTING TECHNIQUE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MEAN OPINION SCORE; TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 50649092866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCCSP.2008.4537398     Document Type: Conference Paper

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