Automatic detection of voice impairments from text-dependent running speech

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 176-182

  Godino Llorente, J I ^a   Fraile, Rubén ^a   Saenz Lechon N ^a   Osma Ruiz, V ^a   Gomez Vilda P ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mel cepstral parameters; Multilayer perceptron; Noise parameters; Pathological voices; Running speech; Voiced detection

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; MULTILAYERS; SPEECH; WELL TESTING;

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CEPSTRAL; DISCRIMINATIVE APPROACH; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRON NEURAL NETWORKS; NOISE PARAMETERS; PATHOLOGICAL VOICE; PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT; TRAINING AND TESTING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSPHONIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VOWEL;

EID: 67650258701     PISSN: 17468094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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