Speech confusion index (Φ): A confusion-based speech quality indicator and recognition rate prediction for dysarthria

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1534-1549

  Kayasith, Prakasith ^a,b   Theeramunkong, Thanaruk ^a  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b NATIONAL ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Dysarthric speech recognition; Recognition rate prediction; Speech assessment; Speech confusion index; Speech quality index

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATED METHODS; BALANCE SET; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYSARTHRIA; DYSARTHRIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; EVALUATION CRITERIA; HIGH-LEVEL INFORMATION; MANUAL METHODS; RECOGNITION RATE PREDICTION; RECOGNITION RATES; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH QUALITY; SPEECH QUALITY INDEX; SPEECH SIGNALS; TRAINING SETS; WARPING TECHNIQUES;

BACKPROPAGATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; STATISTICAL TESTS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 69949129394     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2009.06.051     Document Type: Article

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