Pronunciation verification of children's speech for automatic literacy assessment

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 845-848

  Tepperman, Joseph ^a   Silva, Jorge ^a   Kazemzadeh, Abe ^a   You, Hong ^b   Lee, Sungbok ^a   Alwan, Abeer ^b   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's speech; Literacy; Pronunciation

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; EDUCATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC LITERACY ASSESSMENTS; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; DECISION TREE CLASSIFICATION; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; LITERACY; PRONUNCIATION; PRONUNCIATION EVALUATIONS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 44949221894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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