Automatic intelligibility assessment of speakers after laryngeal cancer by means of acoustic modeling

Journal of Voice

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 390-397

  Bocklet, Tobias ^a,b   Riedhammer, Korbinian ^b   Nöth, Elmar ^b   Eysholdt, Ulrich ^a   Haderlein, Tino ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Intelligibility; Laryngeal cancer; Perceptual evaluation; Provox shunt valve; Total laryngectomy; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYSPHONIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STANDARDIZATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; VOICE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMATION; GERMANY; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX, ARTIFICIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84860427866     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: 18734588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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