Automatic speech recognition with sparse training data for dysarthric speakers

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1189-1192

  Green, Phil ^a   Carmichael, James ^a   Hatzis, Athanassios ^a   Enderby, Pam ^a   Hawley, Mark ^a,b   Parker, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b BARNSLEY DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; ISOLATED WORDS; SPEAKER DEPENDENTS; SPEECH MATERIALS; TEST SETS; TRAINING DATA;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009223117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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