Automatic speech recognition (ASR) and its use as a tool for assessment or therapy of voice, speech, and language disorders

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 91-96

  Kitzing, Peter ^a   Maier, Andreas ^b   Åhlander, Viveka Lyberg ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ASR; Automatic speech recognition; CALL; CAPT; Computer aided language learning; Computer aided pronunciation training; Computer aided speech therapy; Voice quality assessment

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CLIENT SERVER APPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHONIA; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH THERAPY; THERAPY EFFECT;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LEARNING; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 68449100501     PISSN: 14015439     EISSN: 16512022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14015430802657216     Document Type: Article

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