Automatically assessing the ABCs: Verification of children's spoken letter-names and letter-sounds

ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Black, Matthew P ^a   Kazemzadeh, Abe ^a   Tepperman, Joseph ^b   Narayanan, Shrikanth S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Rosetta Stone Labs   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic literacy assessment; Children's read speech; Letter names; Letter sounds; Pronunciation verification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC LITERACY ASSESSMENT; CHILDREN'S READ SPEECH; LETTER-NAMES; LETTER-SOUNDS; PRONUNCIATION VERIFICATION;

RATING; RESEARCH; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; TEACHING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80052004028     PISSN: 15504875     EISSN: 15504883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1998384.1998389     Document Type: Article

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