Opti-speech: A real-time, 3D visual feedback system for speech training

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1174-1178

  Katz, William ^a   Campbell, Thomas ^a   Wang, Jun ^a,b   Farrar, Eric ^a   Eubanks, J Coleman ^a   Balasubramanian, Arvind ^b   Prabhakaran, Balakrishnan ^b   Rennaker, Rob ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^c Vulintus LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic articulography; Speech production; Speech therapy; Visual feedback

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

AMERICAN ENGLISH; ELECTROMAGNETIC ARTICULOGRAPHY; REAL-TIME FEEDBACK; REAL-TIME INFORMATION; SPEECH PRODUCTION; SPEECH THERAPY; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL FEEDBACK SYSTEM;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84910025449     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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