Automatic speech recognition in the diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 47-54

  Fraser, Kathleen ^a   Rudzicz, Frank ^a,b   Graham, Naida ^a,b   Rochon, Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Classification; Progressive aphasia

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY; HEALTHY CONTROLS; NONFLUENT; PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARES; SPEECH SIGNALS; TEXT FEATURE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85097890289     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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