Towards a noisy-channel model of dysarthria in speech recognition

Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, SLPAT 2010 at the 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 80-88

  Rudzicz, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

ABSTRACT REPRESENTATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHANNEL DISTORTIONS; DYSARTHRIA; MOTOR DISABILITY; NOISY CHANNEL; NOISY CHANNEL MODELS; SPEECH SYSTEMS; VOCAL-TRACTS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84859557593     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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