Fuzzy Logic in Speech Technology - Introductory and Overviewing Glimpses

"Pitch analysis of dysarthria helps differentiating between dysarthria mechanisms "

“…The pitch value depends on the age (higher for children), sex (typically higher for women), emotion, and prosody. Its value variation is one of the major elements characterizing prosody (1,2,3,4).…”

“…In turn, these changes translate into involuntary variations of speech features (characteristics). These variations of speech features can be automatically detected by appropriate signal processing means, information extraction, specific classification techniques, and automatic decision-making processes (1,2,3,4).…”