Developing a Weighted Measure of Speech Sound Accuracy.
Purpose: To develop a system for numerically quantifying a speaker's phonetic accuracy through transcription-based measures. With a focus on normal and disordered speech in children, the authors describe a system for differentially weighting speech sound errors on the basis of various levels of phon...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 1 - 19 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
February 2011
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