Orthoepikon is a toolbox which allows for the automatic construction of systems to assist people to read texts aloud correctly. Each system is generated from a linguistic data file (containing a dictionary and rules) written in a standard format based on XML. The systems read plain text, HTML or RTF, and add to them annotations which are easy to interpret and indicate the correct pronunciation ...

A text to speech (TTS) synthesizer is a computer based system that should be able to read any text aloud. The TTS systems are commercially available in English, and in some of the Indian languages like Hindi, Tamil, and Urdu etc. Till now, the text to speech system had not been developed for Konkani language. This is the first TTS system developed for the Konkani ( Goan ) language. Concatenatio...

The ability to detect fluctuation in students’ comprehension of text would be very useful for many intelligent tutoring systems. The obvious solution of inserting comprehension questions is limited in its application because it interrupts the flow of reading. To investigate whether we can detect comprehension fluctuations simply by observing the reading process itself, we developed a statistica...

Reading documents on mobile devices is challenging. Not only are screens small and difficult to read, but also navigating an environment using limited visual attention can be difficult and potentially dangerous. Reading content aloud using text-tospeech (TTS) processing can mitigate these problems, but only for content that does not include rich visual information. In this paper, we introduce a...

The production of phonological features of African American English (AAE) was examined for 64 typically developing African American children in the 2nd through the 5th grade. Students read aloud passages written in Standard American English. Sixty of the students read the passages using AAE, and 8 different phonological features were represented in their readings. Phonological features were mor...

BACKGROUND Contemporary cognitive models of auditory verbal hallucinations propose that they arise through defective self-monitoring. We used a paradigm that engages verbal self-monitoring to investigate this theory in patients with schizophrenia. METHODS Ten patients with auditory verbal hallucinations and delusions (hallucinators), eight patients with delusions but no hallucinations (non-ha...

Background. A word whose body is pronounced in different ways in different words is body-inconsistent. When we take the unit that precedes the vowel into account for the calculation of body-consistency, the proportion of English words that are body-inconsistent is considerably reduced at the level of corpus analysis, prompting the question of whether humans actually use such head/onset-conditio...

Listening and reading comprehension are complex processes that are difficult to assess. Many standardized comprehension tests place high demands on memory, assess only sentence length material, and may not reflect how students comprehend classroom material. The present study employed a sentence verification task ( S m ) to test 60 grade 7 and 8 students' comprehension of expository passages. Pa...

This research was conducted to provide a description and of beginning reading using the Reading aloud method as way improve strengthen students' skills. The approach taken for this is use qualitative with case studies. Methods data collection based on results interviews, observations, field notes, documentation. analysis technique reduction, presentation, drawing conclusions. study will show ho...

The ability to read aloud kanji (logogram) words and to comprehend their meaning was systematically examined to clarify the underlying mechanism of kanji alexia in a patient with anomic aphasia. Confrontation naming, reading aloud and reading comprehension tasks were performed using 110 words from 11 semantic categories written in kanji or kana. Performance in oral reading of kanji words was si...