Towards a practical silent speech recognition system

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1164-1168

  Deng, Yunbin ^a   Heaton, James T ^b   Meltzner, Geoffrey S ^a  

^a BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Semg signal processing and feature extraction; Semg speech recognition; Silent speech interface

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ACOUSTIC SPEECH; EXTRACTION PARAMETERS; HMM MODELS; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SILENT SPEECH; SILENT SPEECH INTERFACES; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84910028724     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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