This paper describes our experiments to overcome the problem of inputting unknown words in a voice-only application by spelling. As the paper demonstrates, this is achieved by postprocessing the speech recognition result to attempt to recover from possible recognition errors that occurred during the spelling phase. Since the post-processing does not involve any additional user input, it not onl...

1.0 Introduction Every literate culture has ways of saying how the written words of their main language are made up of units of writing. In English, this is called spelling. This paper looks at spelling in Tibetan, where it is called sBYor.k)og. sbyor klog (pronounced a little like “jaw lock”). However, it adopts the special perspective, in keeping with the theme for this volume of “sound in tr...

This study examines the effectiveness of five spelling strategies used to teach junior secondary school students with dyslexia. Participants were 30 secondary school teachers in Hong Kong. The teachers commented on five spelling strategies: the phonological strategy, an integration of phonological and orthographical strategies, the rule-based strategy, the visual-imagery strategy and teaching s...

Increased interest in China from foreigners has led to a corresponding interest in the study of Chinese. However, the learning of Chinese by non-native speakers will encounter many difficulties, Chinese spelling check techniques for Chinese as a Foreign Language(CFL) learners is highly desirable. This paper presents our work on the SIGHAN-2015 Chinese Spelling Check task. The task focuses on sp...

Spelling check identifies incorrect writing words in documents. For the reason of input methods, Chinese spelling check is much different from English and it is still a challenging work. For the past decade years, most of the methods in detecting errors in documents are lexicon-based or probability-based, and much progress are made. In this paper, we propose a new method in Chinese spelling che...

Lexical-decision studies with experienced English and French readers have shown that visual-word identification is not only affected by pronunciation inconsistency of a word (i.e., multiple ways to pronounce a spelling body), but also by spelling inconsistency (i.e., multiple ways to spell a pronunciation rime). The aim of this study was to compare the reading behavior of young Dutch readers wi...

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Despite a history of reading or spelling difficulties, some adults attain age-appropriate spelling skills and succeed at university. We compared the spelling of 29 such high-functioning dyslexics with that of 28 typical students, matched on general spelling ability, and controlling for vocabulary and non-verbal intelligence. Participants wrote derived real and pseudo words, whose spelling relat...

Spelling variation in non-standard language, e.g. computer-mediated communication and historical texts, is usually treated as a deviation from a standard spelling, e.g. 2mr as a non-standard spelling for tomorrow. Consequently, in normalization – the standard approach of dealing with spelling variation – so-called non-standard words are mapped to their corresponding standard words. However, the...

Correct spelling is a learned performance, but effective and preferred procedures to develop accurate spelling in young children have not been adequately described. We evaluated the effectiveness of two strategies for teaching spelling to 10 elementary students of typical development. In the traditional rehearse and test method commonly used in elementary classrooms, we gave students a list of ...