<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In this paper, method of an automated measuring reading aloud attributes is presented. The forced alignment as a part of speech recognition technique is used. The recorded reading aloud is forced aligned to the known text and the attributes are computed from it. The tempo and fluency of children are monitored and used for an individual motivation. The length of the read text is chosen according to readers’ skills so that children end up reading at about the same time and poor readers are not frustrated. This approach has been tested and improved at the elementary school for five years and brought positive results.</p></abstract>

In this paper, method of an automated measuring reading aloud attributes is presented. The forced alignment as a part of speech recognition technique is used. The recorded reading aloud is forced aligned to the known text and the attributes are computed from it. The tempo and fluency of children are monitored and used for an individual motivation. The length of the read text is chosen according to readers’ skills so that children end up reading at about the same time and poor readers are not frustrated. This approach has been tested and improved at the elementary school for five years and brought positive results.

Measuring and Improving Children’s Reading Aloud Attributes by Computers

Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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In this paper, method of an automated measuring reading aloud attributes is presented. The forced alignment as a part of speech recognition technique is used....

Measuring and Improving Children’s Reading Aloud Attributes by Computers

Published Online: Jan 24, 2018

Page range: 278 - 286

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0037

Keywords
speech recognition, teaching reading, reading aloud

© 2017 Marek Nagy, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Measuring and Improving Children’s Reading Aloud Attributes by Computers

Published Online: Jan 24, 2018

Page range: 278 - 286

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0037

Keywordsspeech recognition, teaching reading, reading aloud

© 2017 Marek Nagy, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
speech recognition, teaching reading, reading aloud