Wayne H. Ward — accepted AI-conference papers

2024

Automatic Speech Recognition Tuned for Child Speech in the Classroom

Rosy Southwell, Wayne H. Ward, Viet Anh Trinh, Charis Clevenger, Clay Clevenger, Emily Watts +3

ICASSP 2024accepted

K-12 school classrooms have proven to be a challenging environment for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, both due to background noise and conversation, and differences in linguistic and acoustic properties from adult speech, on which the majority of ASR systems are trained and evaluated. W…

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2024

My Science Tutor (MyST)–a Large Corpus of Children’s Conversational Speech

Sameer Pradhan, Ronald A. Cole, Wayne H. Ward

COLING 2024main

This article describes the [corpus-name] corpus developed as part of the [project-name] project. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the largest collections of children’s conversational speech that is freely available for non-commercial use under the creative commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.…

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