Incorporated speech overlapped factor (Φ) into speech clarity index (Ψ): Method to improve dysarthric speech severity evaluation

i-CREATe 2007 - Proceedings of the 1st International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology in Conjunction with 1st Tan Tock Seng Hospital Neurorehabilitation Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 133-138

  Kayasith, Prakasit ^a   Theeramunkong, Thanaruk ^b   Thubthong, Nuttakorn ^c  

^a NATIONAL ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Thailand)

^b THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Dysarthric speech; Recognition rated prediction; Speech assessment; Speech clarity index; Speech overlapped factor

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SYSTEMS; CONTROL SET; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYSARTHRIA; DYSARTHRIC SPEECH; PERCEPTUAL ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION RATED PREDICTION; RECOGNITION RATES; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE DISTANCES; SEVERITY INDEX; SPEECH DISORDERS;

EXPERIMENTS; HOSPITALS; NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION; SPEECH; TANNING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 68949122717     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1328491.1328527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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