A vocabulary acquisition framework using audio books
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In this paper, we describe a framework for vocabulary acquisition using audio books. The proposed framework performs automatic alignment of text and large speech files in audio books. This enables highlighting of words and sentences during voice over. The proposed framework can be easily extended to a large number of audio books. We evaluate this framework on a set of subjects between the age of 7-13 years, and demonstrate the effectiveness of such framework for vocabulary acquisition.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011