Towards an ASR-free objective analysis of pathological speech

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 294-297

  Middag, Catherine ^a   Saeys, Yvan ^a   Martens, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Objective intelligibility assessment; Pathological speech; Phonological features; Running speech

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNIZERS; COMMUNICATION EFFICIENCY; INTELLIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT; OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGICAL SPEECH; PERCEPTUAL TEST; PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES; NOVEL METHODS; OBJECTIVE INTELLIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT; RUNNING SPEECH;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 79959853982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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