Automated Intelligibility Assessment of Pathological Speech Using Phonological Features

Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

Volumn 2009, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Middag, Catherine ^a   Martens, Jean Pierre ^a   Van Nuffelen, Gwen ^b   De Bodt, Marc ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AUTOMATED METHODS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY; COMMUNICATION EFFICIENCY; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; INTELLIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT; NEW SYSTEM; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGICAL SPEECH; PERCEPTUAL TEST; PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SPEECH MATERIALS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 67749131034     PISSN: 16876172     EISSN: 16876180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2009/629030     Document Type: Article

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