Objective estimation of tracheoesophageal speech ratings using an auditory model

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1032-1041

  McDonald, Robert ^a   Parsa, Vijay ^a   Doyle, Philip C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ACOUSTIC WAVEFORM; ALTERNATIVE METHODS; AUDITORY MODELS; LARYNGEAL CANCER; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; OBJECTIVE METRICS; SPEECH QUALITY; SUBJECTIVE RATING; TELECOMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS; TOTAL LARYNGECTOMIES; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL SPEECH; VOICE PRODUCTION; VOICE QUALITY;

ACOUSTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; ESOPHAGUS SPEECH; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 76349089313     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3270396     Document Type: Article

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