Evolutionary approach for integration of multiple pronunciation patterns for enhancement of dysarthric speech recognition

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 841-852

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

^a UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE LA MIXTECA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Dysarthric speech recognition; Evolutionary algorithms; Metamodels

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; DISCRETE HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH; IMPLEMENTATION TECHNIQUES; META MODEL; NEUROLOGICAL INJURY; RECOGNITION ACCURACY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH;

EID: 84887201406     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.08.014     Document Type: Article

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