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  • Encouraging Speech and Vocalization in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

    Joshua Hailpern · 2007 · SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

    This paper reviews existing HCI research on autism spectrum disorder and proposes a new direction: using technology to encourage speech and vocalization in children with ASD who have not acquired spoken language. The author identifies a gap in the field — while HCI researchers…

    autism spectrum disorder · speech disorder · vocalization · visual feedback · auditory feedback

  • Iconic Communication System by XML Language: (SCILX)

    Nathalie Cindy Kuicheu, Laure Pauline Fotso, François Siewe · 2007 · Proceedings of the 2007 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper from the University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon) and De Montfort University (UK) presents SCILX, an XML-based iconic communication system that extends traditional iconic interfaces to enable communication through the Internet. Previous iconic systems — such as the Edith…

    augmentative and alternative communication · iconic communication · XML · literacy · digital divide

  • SIBYLLE: a system for alternative communication adapting to the context and its user

    Tonio Wandmacher, Jean-Yves Antoine, Franck Poirier · 2007 · Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '07)

    This paper describes the latest version of SIBYLLE, an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) system developed at the Université François Rabelais and the Université Européenne de Bretagne for users with severe motor and speech impairments — including cerebrally and…

    augmentative and alternative communication · AAC · word prediction · virtual keyboard · single switch

  • Comparing speaker-dependent and speaker-adaptive acoustic models for recognizing dysarthric speech

    Frank Rudzicz · 2007 · Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '07)

    This short ASSETS 2007 poster from Frank Rudzicz at the University of Toronto compares two strategies for building automatic speech recognition (ASR) acoustic models that work for people with dysarthria — a set of motor speech disorders that produces speech with high intra- and…

    dysarthria · automatic speech recognition · acoustic model · speaker adaptation · hidden Markov model

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