Intelligibility predictors and neural representation of speech

Speech Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-194

  Lobdell, B E ^a   Allen, J B ^a   Hasegawa Johnson, M A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Articulation Index; Speech perception; Speech recognition; Speech representation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FACTORS; ARTICULATION INDEXES; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; ERROR PATTERNS; ERROR RATE; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; HUMAN SPEECH PERCEPTION; MASKING NOISE; NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRAINING DATA SETS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN MODELS; HUMAN FORM MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 78649526584     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.08.016     Document Type: Article

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