Translation of Unintelligible Speech of User into Synthetic Speech Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication
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This paper provides an innovative form of ―Translation of unintelligible speech of user into synthetic speech using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device‖. This AAC device converts the meaningless speech into understandable speech .The development of this system is carried out by building small vocabulary from both the utterance and from the inaudible speech of the autism people. Experiments showed that this method is successful in generating good recognition and translation performance on highly unintelligible speech, even when recognition perplexity is increased.
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