investigating automatic assessment of reading comprehension in young children

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5057-5060

  Gerosa, M ^a   Narayanan, S ^b  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Children's speech; Literacy assessment; Reading comprehension

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEACHING;

AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; LITERACY ASSESSMENT; READING COMPREHENSION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 51449104346     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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