Universal access: Speech recognition for talkers with spastic dysarthria

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1451-1454

  Sharma, Harsh Vardhan ^a,b   Hasegawa Johnson, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Augmentative communication; Cerebral palsy; Dysarthria; Human computer interface; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION; CEREBRAL PALSY; DYSARTHRIA; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES; HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TELEPHONE SETS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450161730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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