Communication has been an essential part of being human and living in society. There are
several different languages and variations of them, so you can speak English in one place …

The detection and removal of disfluencies from speech is an important task since the
presence of disfluencies can adversely affect the performance of speech-based applications …

Evaluating children's reading aloud proficiency is typically a task done by teachers on an
individual basis, where reading time and wrong words are marked manually. A …

Disfluencies are prevalent in spontaneous speech, as shown in many studies of adult
speech. Less is understood about children's speech, especially in pre-school children who …

This paper introduces the LetsRead Corpus of European Portuguese read speech from 6 to
10 years old children. The motivation for the creation of this corpus stems from the …

The work detailed in this thesis proposes solutions to automatically evaluate the reading
ability of children, targeted towards European Portuguese. Contributions were made …

The automatic evaluation of reading performance of children is an important alternative to
any manual or 1-on-1 evaluation by teachers or tutors. To do this, it is necessary to detect …

Spontaneous speech is a particular type of speech setting where a speaker speaks without
preparing in advance. This makes the speaker think about what to say on the spot, formulate …

Com a entrada em vigor das metas curriculares de Português do 1º ciclo do ensino básico,
a avaliação da capacidade de leitura das crianças exige um esforço enorme por parte dos …

論文抄録 発達性ディスレクシアは学習障害の主要な症状の 1 つであり, 早期発見は介入および
読みの療育をするにあたって非常に重要である. PC を用いた簡易なスクリーニングテストが提案 …