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Self-supervised Speech Comparison for L2 Phone, Rhythm, and Intonation Scoring
Stephen McIntosh, Reuben Smit, Daisuke Saito +2
L2 speech assessment has traditionally focused on phonetic assessment, leaving the scoring of suprasegmental features such as rhythm and intonation underexplored. Moreover, assessm…
Automatically assessing oral narratives of Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Retief Louw, Emma Sharratt, Febe de Wet +3
Developing narrative and comprehension skills in early childhood is critical for later literacy. However, teachers in large preschool classrooms struggle to accurately identify stu…
Feature-based analysis of oral narratives from Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Emma Sharratt, Annelien Smith, Retief Louw +3
Oral narrative skills are strong predictors of later literacy development. This study examines the features of oral narratives from children who were identified by experts as requi…
Towards few-shot isolated word reading assessment
Reuben Smit, Retief Louw, Herman Kamper
We explore an ASR-free method for isolated word reading assessment in low-resource settings. Our few-shot approach compares input child speech to a small set of adult-provided refe…