FLORA: Fluent oral reading assessment of children's speech

ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Bolan Os, Dañiel ^a   Cole, Ronald A ^a   Ward, Wayne ^a   Borts, Eric ^a   Svirsky, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluency assessment; Oral reading fluency; Reading tracker; Speech recognition; Speech verification

Indexed keywords

CLASSROOM SETTINGS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FLUENCY ASSESSMENT; HUMAN SCORERS; MAIN COMPONENT; ORAL READING FLUENCY; READING TRACKER; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; TEACHING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80052010602     PISSN: 15504875     EISSN: 15504883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1998384.1998390     Document Type: Article

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