Dysarthric Speakers' Intrinsic Vowel Durations
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This study uses the Nemours Database of Dysarthric Speech and the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech to look into differences in the way vowel quality correlates with intrinsic duration in typical and non-typical populations. Results based on speech material from ten dysarthric subjects indicate that intrinsic vowel duration may indeed play a role as a parameter for acoustic classification.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011