Development of a wireless electromyographically controlled electrolarynx voice prosthesis

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5352-5355

  Heaton, James T ^a   Robertson, Mark ^b   Griffin, Cliff ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Griffin Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VOICE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC SIGNAL; HANDHELDS; ON/OFF CONTROL; PROOF OF CONCEPT; PUSH BUTTONS; SPEECH REHABILITATION; VOICE PROSTHESIS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; PROSTHETICS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; DYSPHONIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGUS SPEECH; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LARYNX PROSTHESIS; TELEMETRY; APHONIA; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

APHONIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LARYNX, ARTIFICIAL; MINIATURIZATION; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL; TELEMETRY;

EID: 84862275804     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091324     Document Type: Conference Paper

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