Recently there has been increasing interest in ways of using outof-domain (OOD) data to improve automatic speech recognition performance in domains where only limited data is available. This paper focuses on one such domain, namely that of disordered speech for which only very small databases exist, but where normal speech can be considered OOD. Standard approaches for handling small data domai...

A proof of concept system is developed to provide a broad assessment of speech development issues in children. It has been designed to enable non-experts to complete an initial screening of children’s speech with the aim of reducing the workload on Speech Language Pathology services. The system was composed of an acoustic model trained by neural networks with split temporal context features and...

BACKGROUND Surgical treatment can reduce disfigurement for children born with cleft lip/palate, however, most children are left with speech and language problems. This creates a new problem as speech and language services is limited. OBJECTIVE To combine the principles of Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR), Primary Health Care (PHC) and institutional medical approaches for reaching and trea...

Voice over IP (VoIP) is an emerging technology where voice is transmitted over packetized data networks instead of the traditional public switched telephone networks. The effective functioning of a VoIP system depends upon the quality of coding/decoding scheme, and on the network’s performance in transmitting the voice packets. Traditional measures of speech coder quality and network performanc...

Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder characterized by weakness, paralysis, or poor coordination of the muscles responsible for speech. Although automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have been developed for disordered speech, factors such as low intelligibility and limited phonemic repertoire decrease speech recognition accuracy, making conventional speaker adaptation algorithms perform po...

backgrounds: the prevalence of disordered eating behaviors has been reported to increase in recent decades; therefore, scientific studies should perform for specifying psychological variables that may contribute to the etiology of this disorder. in this study, we examined the role of body image disturbance and perfectionism variables in predicting disordered eating behaviors among female studen...

During the last decades, automatic speech processing systems witnessed an important progress and achieved remarkable reliability. As a result, such technologies have been exploited in new areas and applications including medical practice. In disordered speech evaluation context, perceptual evaluation is still the most common method used in clinical practice for the diagnosing and the following ...