Automatic intelligibility assessment of pathologic speech in head and neck cancer based on auditory-inspired spectro-temporal modulations

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 542-545

  Zhou, Xinhui ^a   Garcia Romero, Daniel ^a   Mesgarani, Nima ^a   Stone, Maureen ^b   Espy Wilson, Carol ^a   Shamma, Shihab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture model (GMM); Head and neck cancer; Oral; Spectro temporal modulation; Speech intelligibility; Speech pathology; Support vector machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; ORAL; SPECTRO-TEMPORAL MODULATIONS; SPEECH PATHOLOGY;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASES; MODULATION; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOLOGY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84878384106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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