Automatic Speech Recognition: A Shifted Role in Early Speech Intervention

Thumbnail Image

Files

W13-3910.pdf (582.2 KB)

Links to Files

https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W13-3910/

Permanent Link

http://hdl.handle.net/11603/19973

Collections

UMBC Information Systems Department

Author/Creator

Author/Creator ORCID

Date

2013-08

Type of Work

conference papers and proceedings
Text

Department

Program

Citation of Original Publication

Foad Hamidi and Melanie Baljko, Automatic Speech Recognition: A Shifted Role in Early Speech Intervention?, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W13-3910/

Rights

This item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.
Attribution 4.0 International

Subjects

Abstract

Although automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been used in several systems that support speech training for children, this particular design domain poses on-going challenges: an input domain of non-standard speech and a user population for which meaningful, consistent, and well designed automatically-derived feedback is imperative. In this design analysis, we focus on and analyze the differences between the tasks of speech recognition and speech assessment, and identify the latter as a central issue for work in the speech-training domain. Our analysis is based on empirical results from fieldwork with Speech-Language Pathologists concerning the design requirements analysis for tangible toys intended for speech intervention with primaryschool aged children. This analysis leads us to advocate for the use of only rudimentary ASR feedback.