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Towards a multimodal silent speech interface for European Portuguese
João Freitas (Freitas, J.); António Teixeira (António Teixeira); Miguel Sales Dias (Dias, J.); Carlos Bastos (Bastos, C.);
Book Title
Speech technologies
Year (definitive publication)
2011
Language
English
Country
Croatia
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Abstract
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in the presence of environmental noise is still a hard problem to tackle in speech science (Ng et al., 2000). Another problem well described in the literature is the one concerned with elderly speech production. Studies (Helfrich, 1979) have shown evidence of a slower speech rate, more breaks, more speech errors and a humbled volume of speech, when comparing elderly with teenagers or adults speech, on an acoustic level. This fact makes elderly speech hard to recognize, using currently available stochastic based ASR technology. To tackle these two problems in the context of ASR for HumanComputer Interaction, a novel Silent Speech Interface (SSI) in European Portuguese (EP) is envisioned.
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Keywords
Visual Speech,European Portuguese,Silent speech,Visual speech,Acoustic doppler sensing
  • Computer and Information Sciences - Natural Sciences
  • Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering - Engineering and Technology

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