Acoustic, Phonetic and Prosodic Features of Parkinson's disease Speech

no code implementations • WS 2013 • Jorge Proen{\c{c}}a, Arlindo Veiga, C, Sara eias, Fern Perdig{\~a}o, o

Speech Recognition

HESITA(te) in Portuguese

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • C, Sara eias, Dirce Celorico, Jorge Proen{\c{c}}a, Arlindo Veiga, Carla Lopes, Fern Perdig{\~a}o, o

Hesitations, so-called disfluencies, are a characteristic of spontaneous speech, playing a primary role in its structure, reflecting aspects of the language production and the management of inter-communication.

Acoustic Modelling Automatic Speech Recognition +4

The LetsRead Corpus of Portuguese Children Reading Aloud for Performance Evaluation

no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Jorge Proen{\c{c}}a, Dirce Celorico, C, Sara eias, Carla Lopes, Fern Perdig{\~a}o, o

The motivation for the creation of this corpus stems from the inexistence of databases with recordings of reading tasks of Portuguese children with different performance levels and including all the common reading aloud disfluencies.