A Novel Corpus of Children's Disordered Speech

1st Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Saz, Oscar ^a   Rodríguez, William ^a   Lleida, Eduardo ^a   Vaquero, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONNECTED SPEECH; MANUAL LABELING; MODEL-BASED OPC; PARALLEL CORPORA; PERFORMANCE; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH DISORDERS; WORD ERROR RATE; WORK TASK;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85131020484     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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