TY - GEN
T1 - Pronunciation analysis for children with speech sound disorders
AU - Dudy, Shiran
AU - Asgari, Meysam
AU - Kain, Alexander
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/11/4
Y1 - 2015/11/4
N2 - Phonological disorders affect 10% of preschool and school-age children, adversely affecting their communication, academic performance, and interaction level. Effective pronunciation training requires prolonged supervised practice and interaction. Unfortunately, many children do not have access or only limited access to a speech-language pathologist. Computer-assisted pronunciation training has the potential for being a highly effective teaching aid; however, to-date such systems remain incapable of identifying pronunciation errors with sufficient accuracy. In this paper, we propose to improve accuracy by (1) learning acoustic models from a large children's speech database, (2) using an explicit model of typical pronunciation errors of children in the target age range, and (3) explicit modeling of the acoustics of distorted phonemes.
AB - Phonological disorders affect 10% of preschool and school-age children, adversely affecting their communication, academic performance, and interaction level. Effective pronunciation training requires prolonged supervised practice and interaction. Unfortunately, many children do not have access or only limited access to a speech-language pathologist. Computer-assisted pronunciation training has the potential for being a highly effective teaching aid; however, to-date such systems remain incapable of identifying pronunciation errors with sufficient accuracy. In this paper, we propose to improve accuracy by (1) learning acoustic models from a large children's speech database, (2) using an explicit model of typical pronunciation errors of children in the target age range, and (3) explicit modeling of the acoustics of distorted phonemes.
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319655
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319655
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 26737555
AN - SCOPUS:84953300352
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 5573
EP - 5576
BT - 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015
Y2 - 25 August 2015 through 29 August 2015
ER -