Title
Estimation Of Children'S Reading Ability By Fusion Of Automatic Pronunciation Verification And Fluency Detection
Abstract
Pronunciation verification of children's reading is a difficult task in itself, but automatic reading assessment software must also detect and evaluate other phenomena that influence human evaluators. Using an isolated word-reading task, we first show that humans use both pronunciation correctness (accuracy) and fluency information in their assessment of the reading ability of kindergarten to second grade children. Next, we used disfluency-specialized grammars and trained a Bayesian Network to automatically classify the fluency and accuracy of an utterance. Finally, we used these automatically determined scores to estimate evaluators' scores of children's reading ability with a 0.91 correlation.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
INTERSPEECH 2008: 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2008, VOLS 1-5
children's speech, disfluency detection, pronunciation verification, automatic assessment
Field
DocType
Citations 
Pronunciation,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Fluency,Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing
Conference
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.51
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthew Black1202.35
Joseph Tepperman2738.59
Sungbok Lee3139484.13
Narayanan Shrikanth45558439.23