Sökning: "Speech intelligibility"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 40 avhandlingar innehållade orden Speech intelligibility.
1. Mining Speech Sounds : Machine Learning Methods for Automatic Speech Recognition and Analysis
Sammanfattning : This thesis collects studies on machine learning methods applied to speech technology and speech research problems. The six research papers included in this thesis are organised in three main areas. The first group of studies were carried out within the European project Synface. LÄS MER
2. Disfluency in Swedish human–human and human–machine travel booking dialogues
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies disfluency in spontaneous Swedish speech, i.e., the occurrence of hesitation phenomena like eh, öh, truncated words, repetitions and repairs, mispronunciations, truncated words and so on. LÄS MER
3. The /k/s, the /t/s, and the inbetweens : Novel approaches to examining the perceptual consequences of misarticulated speech
Sammanfattning : This thesis comprises investigations of the perceptual consequences of children’s misarticulated speech – as perceived by clinicians, by everyday listeners, and by the children themselves. By inviting methods from other areas to the study of speech disorders, this work demonstrates some successful cases of cross-fertilization. LÄS MER
4. Parkinson’s Disease and Communication : Intelligibility, Interaction and Participation
Sammanfattning : Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting dopamine production in the basal ganglia. It is a common cause of disability among elderly people. The main symptoms are tremor, rigidity, and bradykinesia, but there is a substantial individual variation of how the disease manifests itself. LÄS MER
5. Using the speech intelligibility index for evaluating speech test results and hearing aid characteristics
Sammanfattning : Understanding speech is crucial for human communication. Therefore, speech audiometry plays an important part in the assessment of the hearing impaired, and improved speech intelligibility is a major goal of hearing aid fitting. LÄS MER