Is ASR accurate enough for automated reading tutors, and how can we tell?

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 837-840

  Mostow, Jack ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Soliloquy Learning   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Reading tutors; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EVALUATION; READING TUTORS;

TEACHING;

EID: 44949143292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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