My Pronunciation Coach: Improving English pronunciation with an automatic coach that listens

A Prototype Reading Coach that Listens

We report progress on a new approach to combatting illiteracy -getting computers to listen to children read aloud. We describe a fully automated prototype coach for oral reading. It displays a story on the screen, listens as a child reads it, and decides whether and how to intervene. We report on pilot experiments with low-reading second graders to test whether these interventions are technical...

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A Prototype Reading Coach that Listens: Summary of Project LISTEN

What: Project LISTEN is developing a novel weapon against illiteracy: an automated reading coach that displays a story on a computer screen, listens to a child read it aloud, and helps where 1. needed. The coach provides a combination of reading and listening, in which the child reads wherever possible, and the coach helps wherever necessary. We demonstrated a prototype of this coach at the ARP...

A Reading Coach that Listens: (Edited) Video Transcript

This publication and its companion paper and video are copyrighted: J. Mostow, S. Roth, A. Hauptmann, M. Kane, A. Swift, L. Chase, and B. Weide. (August 1994). A reading coach that listens: (edited) video transcript. Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI94). Seattle, WA. J. Mostow, S. Roth, A. G. Hauptmann, and M. Kane. (August 1994). A Prototype Readin...

Improving English Pronunciation: An Automated Instructional Approach

This paper describes an experiment in which groups of children attempted to improve their English pronunciation using an English-language learning software, some English alms, and a speech-to-text software engine. The experiment was designed to examine two hypotheses. The arst is that speechto-text software, trained in an appropriate voice, can act as an evaluator of accent and clarity of speec...