Objective intelligibility assessment of pathological speakers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1745-1748

  Middag, Catherine ^a   Van Nuffelen, Gwen ^b   Martens, Jean Pierre ^a   De Bodt, Marc ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Objective intelligibility assessment; Pathological speech; Phonemic features; Phonological features

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNIZERS; INTELLIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT; INTELLIGIBILITY SCORES; INTERMEDIATE LAYERS; OBJECTIVE METHODS; PATHOLOGICAL SPEECH; PERCEPTUAL TEST; PHONEMIC FEATURES; PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES; PREDICTION MODEL; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; TRIPHONES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84867217408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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