Authoring New Material in a Reading Tutor that Listens
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Project LISTEN’s Reading Tutor helps children learn to read by providing assisted practice in reading connected text. A key goal is to provide assistance for reading any English text entered by students or adults. This live demonstration shows how the Reading Tutor helps users enter and narrate stories, and then helps children read them. Areas: intelligent interfaces, computer-aided instruction, dialog, speech recognition1
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