An evaluation of exercises for the development of word recognition and word meaning in grade five

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

An evaluation of exercises for the development of word recognition and word meaning in grade five

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Military applications of automatic speech recognition and future requirements

An updated summary of the state-of-the-art of automatic speech recognition and its relevance to military applications is provided. A number of potential systems for military applications are under development. These include: (1) digital narrowband communication systems; (2) automatic speech verification; (3) on-line cartographic processing unit; (4) word recognition for militarized tactical data system; and (5) voice recognition and synthesis for aircraft cockpit

Speech as a pilot input medium

The speech recognition system under development is a trainable pattern classifier based on a maximum-likelihood technique. An adjustable uncertainty threshold allows the rejection of borderline cases for which the probability of misclassification is high. The syntax of the command language spoken may be used as an aid to recognition, and the system adapts to changes in pronunciation if feedback from the user is available. Words must be separated by .25 second gaps. The system runs in real time on a mini-computer (PDP 11/10) and was tested on 120,000 speech samples from 10- and 100-word vocabularies. The results of these tests were 99.9% correct recognition for a vocabulary consisting of the ten digits, and 99.6% recognition for a 100-word vocabulary of flight commands, with a 5% rejection rate in each case. With no rejection, the recognition accuracies for the same vocabularies were 99.5% and 98.6% respectively

Developmental Gradations of Kindergartners' Concept of Word in Text: An Examination of the Relationship between Fingerpoint Reading Skills and Other Early Literacy Measures

This study examined the relationships between concept of word development and other early literacy measures (rhyme awareness, beginning sound awareness, alphabet knowledge, letter sound knowledge, spelling, and word recognition in isolation) using data from the PALS-K. Supporting previous research by using a much larger data set than had been used to date, Pearson Product-Moment correlations were used to describe the relationships between total concept of word scores and the literacy measures and multiple regression analysis were used to examine the ability of the literacy measures to predict total concept of word scores. Extending previous research, this study examined the developmental gradations in children's concept of word, a novel approach to examining concept of word data. Discriminant Analyses were used to build and test a model to identify the literacy measures from the PALS-K that best predict a child's level of concept of word development - developing, rudimentary, or firm. Pearson Product-moment correlations indicated significant relationships between all variable on the PALS-K and total concept of word scores with word recognition in isolation scores and spelling scores demonstrating the largest correlations. Standard multiple regression indicated that the subtests on the PALS-K were able to significantly predict a large portion of the variance in total concept of word scores with word recognition in isolation scores and spelling scores contributing the most unique variance. Discriminant analyses indicated the measures were able to classify students' concept of word development into the categories of developing, rudimentary, and full/firm, with word recognition in isolation score and spelling scores being most associated with the functions generated. Implications for teaching and future research are also discussed

The development and evaluation of exercises for group response to word meaning for increasing the speed of word recognition in grade I

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Enhancing the Early Literacy Development of Children at Risk for Reading Difficulties

This paper reviews the dynamic and interactive links between the development of children’s language phonological awareness, and reading. Some of the key issues explored are procedures to enhance children’s language development, decoding and word recognition skills, along with some relevant assessment and programming strategies that can facilitate children’s early reading development. In particular, the paper supports the suggestion that deficits in phonological awareness are often a consequence of slow vocabulary development (a classic marker of language delay) and that teachers need to be able to adapt their language and dialogue interactions for children with language delays

Phonology is Fundamental in Skilled Reading

There is controversy about the importance of phonology in skilled reading. Event-related potential (ERP) evidence from the initial moments of visual word recognition indicates that processing sub-lexical phonology is fundamental to skilled reading. The early timecourse of this phonological activation explains the predictive power of phonological awareness for early reading development, affirms the importance of phonological processing in learning to read, and illuminates the persistent challenges of dyslexia

Integrating user-centred design in the development of a silent speech interface based on permanent magnetic articulography

Abstract: A new wearable silent speech interface (SSI) based on Permanent Magnetic Articulography (PMA) was developed with the involvement of end users in the design process. Hence, desirable features such as appearance, port-ability, ease of use and light weight were integrated into the prototype. The aim of this paper is to address the challenges faced and the design considerations addressed during the development. Evaluation on both hardware and speech recognition performances are presented here. The new prototype shows a com-parable performance with its predecessor in terms of speech recognition accuracy (i.e. ~95% of word accuracy and ~75% of sequence accuracy), but significantly improved appearance, portability and hardware features in terms of min-iaturization and cost