03.07.2023
Child Speech Recognition
majority of those who learn how to read are children
children are physiologically (differences in size and anatomy of vocal tract; teeth change) and cognitively different...
reading is essentially a process of translation of textual sequences into their phonetic representations
spoken word thus play a fundamental role in reading acquisition
highly accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR ) systems exist for many languages but they are still strongly biased towards accurate processing of adult voices
HOWEVER: in reading acquisition or reading fostering scenarios one deals with speakers whoseutterances of sequences-to-be-read exhibit peculiar characteristics
