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This work targets building an oral reading “tutor” that provides automatic and reliable feedback to children learning to read. The work uses state-of-the-art in speech recognition technology coupled with prosody modeling. The system is tested on available datasets of children’s readings in English as second language. The expected challenges relate to dealing with children’s speech demonstrating a...
Focus or prominence is an important linguistic function of prosody. The acoustic realisation of prominence in an utterance, in most languages, involves one or more acoustic dimensions while affecting one or more words in the utterance. It is of interest to identify the acoustic correlates as well as their possible interaction in the production and perception of focus. In this article, we consider...
Recordings of read-aloud stories by children in a school setting can be used to provide an assessment of reading skills via automatic speech recognition (ASR). ASR, however, is known to be highly susceptible to background noise. The unusual variety of foreground (breath release, mic pops, etc.) and background (children playing, distinct background talker, wind, etc.) non-speech sounds makes this application...
Text-to-speech synthesizers present an attractive alternative to reading in hands-free communication scenarios. Speech intelligibility and naturalness are key to the user acceptability of synthesized speech. The accurate modeling of prosody plays an important role in both dimensions. While prosody is language dependent, it is also strongly dependent on the speaking style. In this work, we study the...
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