Reading Companion: The Technical and Social Design of an Automated Reading Tutor

3rd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 53-59

  Kantor, Arthur ^a   Cerňak, Miloš ^a   Havelka, Jiří ^a   Huber, Sean ^b   Kleindienst, Jan ^a   Gonzalez, Doris B ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

automatic reading tutor; child speech recognition; computer aided learning

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC READING; AUTOMATIC READING TUTOR; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; CHILDREN'S SPEECH RECOGNITION; COMPUTER-AIDED LEARNING; LEARN+; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; READING TUTORS; SOCIAL DESIGNS; TECHNICAL DESIGN;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 84954234235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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