This article describes the recognition part of a system that will be used for personalized therapy of dyslalia affecting pre scholars. Dyslalia is a speech disorder that affect pronunciation of one ore many sounds. The full system targets interdisciplinary research (computer science, psychology, electronics) having as main objective the development of methods, models, algorithms, System on Chip...

In this paper, we evaluate the quality of speech over a wired-cum-wireless scenario with the presence of various non-VoIP flows by simulations. The quality is mainly determined in terms of network impairments (e.g. one-way delay, jitter and packet loss). Besides, Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and EModel defined by ITU-T are also employed to assess call quality. In the experiments, it is essential fo...

The development of a person's ability to understand other's thoughts and feelings, so-called "theory of mind" (ToM), is subject to study. Children with communicative disabilities have exhibited problems in this respect, highlighting the role of language in the development of ToM. In this study, ToM was studied in children with cerebral palsy and severe speech impairments. Two tasks, differently...

This paper presents a speech operated smart-home control system with a focus on users with special needs – elderly people, people suffering from blindness or low vision and people with mobility impairments. The proposed system simplifies the use of various home appliances by providing a unified speech-controlled interface and thus improves the quality of their everyday life. The paper presents ...

Background: In aphasia, impairments affecting stages after lexical access have been subdivided into three types: 1. specifying a sequence of phonemes (the reproduction variety conduction CA); 2. holding on to these representations during articulatory planning short-term memory (STM) and 3. Impairments integrated articulatory/motor plans for clusters (apraxia speech, AoS). Models speech producti...

Several reports suggest that socioemotional disorders and language impairments frequently co-occur in children receiving special education services. One explanation for the high levels of co-occurrence is that limitations inherent to linguistic deficiencies are frequently misinterpreted as symptomatic of underlying socioemotional pathology. In this report, five commonly used behavioral rating s...