Spectral features for automatic blind intelligibility estimation of spastic dysarthric speech

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3017-3020

  Hummel, Richard ^a   Chan, Wai Yip ^a   Falk, Tiago H ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Delta energy; Dysarthria; Intelligibility; P.563; Subjective quality

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT; DELTA-ENERGY; DYSARTHRIA; INTERNAL FEATURES; LINEAR MAPPING; P.563; SPECTRAL DYNAMICS; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SPEECH QUALITY; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY; UNIVERSAL ACCESS; VOWEL SPACE;

ESTIMATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84865772147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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