[IP] speech synthesis, signal processing, speech recognition, and human-computer dialogue used to study autism accurately

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Liz Ditz <ponytrax@batnet.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:13:51 -0800
To: <dave@farber.net>
Subject: speech synthesis, signal processing, speech recognition, and
human-computer dialogue used to study autism accurately


For IP if you wish:

If your family has been affected by autism, you may find the following
study (and its implications) fascinating:

" To assess prosodic abilities, the project will use speech
technologies initially developed at CSLU for speech synthesis, signal
processing, speech recognition, and human-computer dialogue. These
technologies will be used to measure prosody in the children's speech,
or to create speech stimuli to measure the children's abilities to
understand prosodic cues.

  "We are only now becoming aware of the potential of these technologies
for studying communication disorders," said van Santen. "They were
never developed for this purpose, but it turns out that we do not have
to reinvent the wheel. Here is how these techniques make a critical
difference. In the past, researchers would have to learn how to listen
to prosody, and different listeners would never agree. But now, we have
the quantitative models that allow us to make statements such as: 'This
child's prosody is only 25 percent connected with meaning.'""

full text of press release, and details of experiments:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-02/ohs-ors022805.php

Contact: Jim Newman
newmanj@ohsu.edu
503-494-8231
Oregon Health & Science University


OHSU researchers study communication disorders in autism



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Liz Ditz
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