Voice-enabled assistive robots for handling autism spectrum conditions: An examination of the role of prosody

Speech Technology and Text Mining in Medicine and Health Care

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 207-236

  Marchi, Erik ^a   Ringeval, Fabien ^a   Schuller, BjÖrn ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS; AUTISTIC CHILDREN; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SPONTANEOUS INTERACTION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84978439224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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