HomeService: Voice-enabled assistive technology in the home using cloud-based automatic speech recognition

SLPAT 2013 - 4th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, SLPAT 2013, Workshop Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 29-34

  Christensen, H ^a   Casanuevo, I ^a   Cunningham, S ^a   Green, P ^a   Hain, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'In the field' speech recognition; Cloud based speech recognition; Dysarthric speech recognition

Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

'IN-THE-FIELD' SPEECH RECOGNITION; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CASE-STUDIES; CLOUD-BASED; CLOUD-BASED SPEECH RECOGNITION; DYSARTHRIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATE OF THE ART; USER REQUIREMENTS; VOICE-CONTROLLED;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85037085323     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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