Giving help and praise in a reading tutor with imperfect listening —because automated speech recognition means never being able to say you’re certain

CALICO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 407-424

  Mostow, Jack ^a   Aist, Gregory ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer assisted language learning; Intelligent tutoring systems; Multimedia; Oral reading; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001103769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20569017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/cj.v16i3.407-424     Document Type: Article

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