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Vowel & Diphthong Tutors for Language Therapy

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Ingrid Kirschning,

Ma. Teresa Toledo,

Lydia E. Valadez,

Dora CanizalesAuthors Info & Claims

ENC '05: Proceedings of the Sixth Mexican International Conference on Computer Science

Pages 26 - 30

https://doi.org/10.1109/ENC.2005.54

Published: 26 September 2005 Publication History

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The present paper describes the application called ICATIANI, developed to aid hearing impaired children in the acquisition of speech. The system supports the practice of vowels, diphthong and basic vocabulary. An animated character "Baldi" pronounces slowly and asks the student to speak, and if the utterance is correctly recognized, Baldi smiles otherwise he makes a sad face and asks the child to try again. A speech recognizer is used to evaluate the pronunciation of the words. Tests were performed to assess the children's pronunciation and progress. Last year some improvement was detected and now not only hearing impaired children but also children with intellectual disabilities are trying out the system. This paper presents the advances and the results so far, as well as experiences of the applying speech technology to support language acquisition for children in a public school in Mexico.

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Darejeh ASalim SAsemi A(2019)Speech pronunciation practice system for speech-impaired childrenUniversal Access in the Information Society10.1007/s10209-017-0573-518:1(169-189)Online publication date: 15-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10209-017-0573-5
Bastanfard ARezaei NMottaghizadeh MFazel M(2010)A novel multimedia educational speech therapy system for hearing impaired childrenProceedings of the Advances in multimedia information processing, and 11th Pacific Rim conference on Multimedia: Part II10.5555/1894049.1894117(705-715)Online publication date: 21-Sep-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1894049.1894117

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Vowel & Diphthong Tutors for Language Therapy
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Collaborative learning
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Knowledge representation and reasoning
    2. Natural language processing
      1. Speech recognition
  2. Machine learning
    1. Machine learning approaches
      1. Rule learning

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Darejeh ASalim SAsemi A(2019)Speech pronunciation practice system for speech-impaired childrenUniversal Access in the Information Society10.1007/s10209-017-0573-518:1(169-189)Online publication date: 15-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10209-017-0573-5
Bastanfard ARezaei NMottaghizadeh MFazel M(2010)A novel multimedia educational speech therapy system for hearing impaired childrenProceedings of the Advances in multimedia information processing, and 11th Pacific Rim conference on Multimedia: Part II10.5555/1894049.1894117(705-715)Online publication date: 21-Sep-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1894049.1894117

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