Dynamic estimation of phoneme confusion patterns with a genetic algorithm to improve the performance of metamodels for recognition of disordered speech

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7630 LNAI, Issue PART 2, 2013, Pages 175-187

  Caballero Morales, Santiago Omar ^a   Trujillo Romero, Felipe ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE LA MIXTECA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Disordered Speech Recognition; Genetic Algorithms; Metamodels

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DIVERSE TECHNIQUES; DYNAMIC ESTIMATION; META MODEL; PHONEME CONFUSION MATRIX; SPEECH DISABILITIES; SPEECH DISORDERS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ESTIMATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84875869037     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37798-3_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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