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• A System for Controlling Assisted Living Environments Using Mobile Devices

  Paulo A. Condado, Fernando G. Lobo · 2015 · ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  This paper presents EasyHouse, a smartphone-based home automation system designed to be accessible for people with motor disabilities while remaining usable by all family members. The system addresses a gap in the smart home market: most domotic (home automation) products target…

  home automation · smart home · motor disabilities · cerebral palsy · mobile accessibility

• Individuality-Preserving Voice Conversion for Articulation Disorders Using Phoneme-Categorized Exemplars

  Ryo Aihara, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki · 2015 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents a voice conversion system designed to improve speech intelligibility for people with articulation disorders resulting from athetoid cerebral palsy, while critically preserving the speaker's voice individuality. Cerebral palsy affects about 2 in 1,000 births,…

  voice conversion · articulation disorders · cerebral palsy · speech technology · assistive technology

• Intelligibility Assessment and Speech Recognizer Word Accuracy Rate Prediction for Dysarthric Speakers in a Factor Analysis Subspace

  David Martínez, Phil Green, Heidi Christensen · 2015 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents a novel approach to assessing speech intelligibility and predicting automatic speech recognition (ASR) accuracy for speakers with dysarthria using iVectors, a technique from speaker verification research. The authors address a critical challenge in assistive…

  dysarthric speech · speech recognition · intelligibility assessment · iVectors · factor analysis

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