Automatic detection and classification of disfluent reading miscues in young children's speech for the purpose of assessment

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 941-944

  Black, Matthew ^a   Tepperman, Joseph ^a   Lee, Sungbok ^a   Price, Patti ^b   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PPrice Speech and Language Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic assessment; Children's speech; Disfluency detection

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; DISFLUENCIES; DISFLUENCY DETECTIONS; FALSE ALARM RATE; QUESTION INTONATION; READING ABILITIES; YOUNG CHILDREN;

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EID: 56149127593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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