Digital games can make speech therapy exercises more enjoyable for children and increase
their motivation during therapy. However, many such games developed to date have not …

A typical fluency scoring system generally relies on an automatic speech recognition (ASR)
system to obtain time stamps in input speech for the subsequent calculation of fluency …

Automatic non-native fluency scoring is a challenging task which relies heavily on the
effectiveness of the handcrafted fluency features used for predicting fluency scores. In this …

Literacy skills are pivotal for children to become schooled and educated and to engage with
written texts in everyday life. Learning to read is a primary skill that children acquire at …

Existing research reveals a robust relationship between self‐reported print exposure and
long‐term literacy development, yet few studies have demonstrated how reading skills …

Variability in oral reading fluency (ORF), an indicator of foundational reading skills, has been
linked to characteristics of texts. Such text-based variability in ORF has been traditionally …

In a school context, learning is usually detected by repeated measurements of the skill of
interest through a sequence of specially designed tests; in particular, this is the case with …

Oral reading fluency assessment is a process where a student reads a passage aloud and is
scored against words read correctly by a human listener. Current automatic reading fluency …

Automatic speech fluency prediction has been mainly approached from the perspective of
computer aided language learning, where the system tends to predict ratings similar to those …

In this study, upper-elementary-age students used an interactive reading app to read from a
classic children's novel during a summer program. Students took turns reading with an adult …