The use of phonetic motor invariants can improve automatic phoneme discrimination

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Castellini, Claudio ^a   Badino, Leonardo ^b   Metta, Giorgio ^a,b   Sandini, Giulio ^b   Tavella, Michele ^a   Grimaldi, Mirko ^c   Fadiga, Luciano ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIO MOTOR MAP; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PHONEME; PHONETIC MOTOR INVARIANT; PHONETICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHONETICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 80052388936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024055     Document Type: Article

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