Characterization of atypical vocal source excitation, temporal dynamics and prosody for objective measurement of dysarthric word intelligibility

Speech Communication

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 622-631

  Falk, Tiago H ^a   Chan, Wai Yip ^b   Shein, Fraser ^c,d  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c University of Toronto   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dysarthria; Intelligibility; Linear prediction; Temporal dynamics; Vocal source excitation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION DISORDERS; DYSARTHRIA; LINEAR PREDICTION; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT; PROSODIC PARAMETER; SPECTRAL SIGNAL; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH RATES; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL PERTURBATIONS; UNIVERSAL ACCESS; WORD INTELLIGIBILITY;

TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84858439037     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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