Abstract: We propose a system to enhance electrolaryngeal speech naturalness using automatically extracted phoneme representations. Phonemes provide sufficient information for predicting reasonably ...

“It is not uncommon for us to hear, ‘We are doing the science of reading because the schools have adopted a phonics or phonemic awareness curriculum,’” said Katie Sojewicz, a professional ...

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Existing efforts typically draw on regression models for proficiency score prediction, wherein the models are trained to estimate target values without explicitly accounting for phoneme-awareness in ...

English learners need foundational skills like phonics and vocabulary in addition to instruction in speaking and understanding English and connections to their home languages. Those are two agreements ...

The phonemes were presented in audiovisual (AV ... we used is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a curled shape and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate. The retroflex ...