Spontaneous-speech acoustic-prosodic features of children with autism and the interacting psychologist

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1042-1045

  Bone, Daniel ^a   Black, Matthew P ^a   Lee, Chi Chun ^a   Williams, Marian E ^b   Levitt, Pat ^b   Lee, Sungbok ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ADOS; Atypical prosody; Autism spectrum disorder; Intonation; Psychologist; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

ADOS; ATYPICAL PROSODY; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; INTONATION; PSYCHOLOGIST; VOICE QUALITY;

DISEASES; SPEECH;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84878393217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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