Comparing humans and automatic speech recognition systems in recognizing dysarthric speech

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6657 LNAI, Issue , 2011, Pages 291-300

  Mengistu, Kinfe Tadesse ^a   Rudzicz, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

dysarthric speech; intelligibility; speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COORDINATION REACTIONS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; COMPLEX PROCESSES; HUMAN LISTENERS; INTELLIGIBILITY TESTS; MEAN PERCENTAGE; MULTIPLE CHOICE; SINGLE WORDS; WORD RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79957961648     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21043-3_36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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