Automatic pronunciation verification of english letter-names for early literacy assessment of preliterate children

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4861-4864

  Black, Matthew ^a   Tepperman, Joseph ^a   Kazemzadeh, Abe ^a   Lee, Sungbok ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic reading assessment; Children's speech; Letter names; Pronunciation verification

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AUTOMATIC READING ASSESSMENT; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; LETTER-NAMES; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NOISE CONDITIONS; PRONUNCIATION ASSESSMENT; PRONUNCIATION VERIFICATION; SOUND VERIFICATION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 70349204637     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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