Since 1990 Hereford and Worcester County Council Education Department (HWCC-ED) and the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) at Malvern have been conducting research into the use of speech recognition technology in a primary school classroom to aid speech development. The goal of the project is to develop a robust, autonomous system that will enable a child to practice the pronunciation of a given set of words by speaking them to a computer, which will provide immediate feedback on whether the pronunciation is acceptable. This paper will describe the issues that the project has raised, the prototype system which has been developed, and the preliminary results of trials of the system at Dines Green primary school, Worcester, UK.
Cite as: Wallace, J.L., Russel, M., Brown, C., Shilling, A. (1998) Applications of speech recognition in the primary school classroom. Proc. ETRW on Speech Technology in Language Learning (STiLL), 21-24
@inproceedings{wallace98_still,
author={Julie L Wallace and Martin Russel and Catherine Brown and Adrian Shilling},
title={{Applications of speech recognition in the primary school classroom}},
year=1998,
booktitle={Proc. ETRW on Speech Technology in Language Learning (STiLL)},
pages={21--24}
}