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A computer-based system of speech-training aids for the deaf: a progress report

Published: 06 May 1974 Publication History

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This paper is a progress report on an effort to develop a computer-based system of speech-training aids for the deaf. The project was begun with the assumption that an attempt to design such a system would probably fail, and that a more promising approach would be to attempt to evolve one through use. Accordingly, a system incorporating some of the capabilities that it was thought would be useful for speech training was developed, and installed at the Clarke School for the Deaf where it is now being used on an experimental basis in a remedial speech-training program. The expectation was that the capabilities of the system would be modified and extended as attempts to use it provided insights concerning what features it should have. To ensure that such insights do in fact guide the system's evolution, developers and users are engaged in a continuing dialogue concerning the desirability and feasibility of specific modifications and extensions, both in the training procedures that are used in conjunction with the system and in the characteristics of the system itself.

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Pickett, J. M., "Recent research on speech-analyzing aids for the deaf," IEEE Transactions on Audio and Electroacoustics, 1968, AU-16, pp. 227--234.
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Stevens, K. N., D. N. Kalikow and T. R. Willemain, "The Use of a Miniature Accelerometer for Detecting Glottal Waveforms and Nasality," Submitted to The Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1974, in press.
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Nickerson, R. S. and K. N. Stevens, "An Experimental computer-based System of Speech Training Aids for the Deaf," in Proceedings, Conference on Speech Communication and Processing, Newton, Mass., April 1972, pp. 238--241.
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Nickerson, R. S. and K. N. Stevens, "Teaching Speech to the Deaf: Can a Computer Help?" IEEE Transactions on Audio and Electroacoustics, 1973, AU-21, pp. 445--455.
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AFIPS '74: Proceedings of the May 6-10, 1974, national computer conference and exposition
May 1974
1083 pages
ISBN:9781450379205
DOI:10.1145/1500175
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Published: 06 May 1974

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