Automatic childhood autism detection by vocalization decomposition with phone-like units

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Xu, Dongxin ^a   Richards, Jeffrey A ^a   Gilkerson, Jill ^a   Yapanel, Umit ^a   Gray, Sharmistha ^a   Hansen, John ^b  

^a LENA Foundation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Autism detection; Autism identification; Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); Child development; Child speech signal processing; Pattern recognition; Speech signal processing

Indexed keywords

AUTISM IDENTIFICATION; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; AUTOMATIC MECHANISMS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL USE; COMBINED FEATURES; DATA SETS; DETECTION ACCURACY; EARLY INTERVENTION; ERROR RATE; K-MEANS; LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PHONE-LIKE UNITS; RELATIVE ERRORS; SCREENING TOOL; SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ERROR DETECTION; LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SETS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 74049123819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1640377.1640382     Document Type: Conference Paper

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