A voice-input voice-output communication aid for people with severe speech impairment

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-31

  Hawley, Mark S ^a   Cunningham, Stuart P ^b   Green, Phil D ^b   Enderby, Pam ^a   Palmer, Rebecca ^a   Sehgal, Siddharth ^b   O'Neill, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c BARNSLEY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Augmentative and alternative communication; automatic speech recognition; dysarthria; voice output communication aid

Indexed keywords

AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION DEVICES; AUGMENTATIVE-AND-ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNIZERS; COMMUNICATION AIDS; DYSARTHRIA; FIELD TRIAL; NEW FORMS; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SPEECH INPUT; SPEECH OUTPUT; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; TRAINING DATA; USER CENTERED DESIGNS;

HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNICATION AID; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872129131     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2012.2209678     Document Type: Article

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