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Mo Chen; Jolene Hyppa-Martin; H. Timothy Bunnell; Jason Lilley; Celestine Foo; Han Wei Tan; Wei Shun Lim – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2023
Voice banking involves recording an inventory of sentences produced via natural speech. The recordings are used to create a synthetic text-to-speech voice that can be installed on speech-generating devices. This study highlights a minimally researched, clinically relevant issue surrounding the development and evaluation of Singaporean-accented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Audio Equipment, Adults, Participant Satisfaction
Alexander Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The potential of speech technology to improve educational outcomes has been a topic of great interest in recent years. For example, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems could be employed to provide kindergarten-aged children with real-time feedback on their literacy and pronunciation as they practice reading aloud. Within these systems,…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Black Dialects, African American Students, Equal Education
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Hsu, Ting-Chia; Chen, Mu-Sheng – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2022
This research explored the creative thinking, learning achievement, and engagement of students when they integrated the application of the personal audio classifier (PAC) into the competition of a computational thinking (CT) board game (i.e., the experimental group), or did not integrate it into the competition but only collaborated with peers to…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Robotics, Games, Computation
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Chukharev-Hudilainen, Evgeny; Ockey, Gary J. – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
This paper describes the development and evaluation of Interaction Competence Elicitor (ICE), a spoken dialog system (SDS) for the delivery of a paired oral discussion task in the context of language assessment. The purpose of ICE is to sustain a topic-specific conversation with a test taker in order to elicit discourse that can be later judged to…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language)
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Stone, Cathlyn; Donnelly, Patrick J.; Dale, Meghan; Capello, Sarah; Kelly, Sean; Godley, Amanda; D'Mello, Sidney K. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
We examine the ability of supervised text classification models to identify several discourse properties from teachers' speech with an eye for providing teachers with meaningful automated feedback about the quality of their classroom discourse. We collected audio recordings from 28 teachers from 10 schools in 164 authentic classroom sessions,…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Communication, Audio Equipment, Feedback (Response)
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Wigmore, Angela; Hunter, Gordon; Pflugel, Eckhard; Denholm-Price, James; Binelli, Vincent – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2009
Speech technology--especially automatic speech recognition--has now advanced to a level where it can be of great benefit both to able-bodied people and those with various disabilities. In this paper we describe an application "TalkMaths" which, using the output from a commonly-used conventional automatic speech recognition system,…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Disabilities, Assistive Technology, Research and Development