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Speech Recognition Applied to Reading Assistance for Children: A Baseline Language Model
A. G. Hauptmann, Lin Chase, and Jack Mostow
Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Speech
Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH93), September, 1993, pp. 2255-2258.
| Abstract |
| We describe an approach to using speech recognition in assisting children's reading. A state-of-the-art speaker independent continuous speech recognizer designed for large vocabulary dictation is adapted to the task of identifying substitutions and omissions in a known text. A baseline language model for this new task is detailed and evaluated against a corpus of children reading graded passages. We are able to identify words missed by a reader with an average false positive rate of 39% and a corresponding false negative rate of 37%. These preliminary results are encouraging for our long-term goal of providing automated coaching for children learning to read. |
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| Text Reference |
| A. G. Hauptmann, Lin Chase, and Jack Mostow, "Speech Recognition Applied to Reading Assistance for Children: A Baseline Language Model," Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH93), September, 1993, pp. 2255-2258. |
| BibTeX Reference |
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@inproceedings{Chase_1993_3703, author = "A. G. Hauptmann and Lin Chase and Jack Mostow", title = "Speech Recognition Applied to Reading Assistance for Children: A Baseline Language Model", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH93)", pages = "2255-2258", month = "September", year = "1993", } |
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