Speech technologybased assessment of phoneme intelligibility in dysarthria

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 716-730

  Van Nuffelen, Gwen ^a,b   Middag, Catherine ^c   De Bodt, Marc ^a   Martens, Jeanpierre ^c  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aligner; Assessment; Dysarthria; Intelligibility; Phonemic and phonological

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSARTHRIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHONEME; PHONETICS; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DYSARTHRIA; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 70350118812     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: 14606984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13682820802342062     Document Type: Article

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