Unit selection speech synthesis has reached high levels of naturalness and intelligibility for neutral read aloud speech. However, synthetic speech generated using neutral read aloud data lacks all the attitude, intention and spontaneity associated with everyday conversations. Unit selection is heavily data dependent and thus in order to simulate human conversational speech, or create synthetic...

The production effect (PE) documents the advantage in memory performance for words that are read aloud during study, rather than words that are read silently. Until now, the PE was examined in the visual modality, as the participants read the study words. In the present study, we extended the PE phenomenon and used the auditory modality at study. This novel methodology provides a critical test ...

The  Question  Answer  Relationship  (QAR)  strategy  equips  students  with  tools  to  successfully decode and comprehend what they read. An action research project over 18 days with twenty-three kindergarteners adapted exposure to QAR’s “In the Book” and “In my Head” categories with similar questions for each of two popular Aesop’s fables. The challenges and outcomes are  presented  with  sp...

The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not the reading aloud technique aided eighth-grade junior high school students in developing habits. This pre-experimental quantitative research. instruments utilized will be a test and questionnaire. study's population included 56 from two classes, with 29 serving as sample. data was collected classroom using reading-aloud activity. Descript...

Introduction Seymour Papert in Mindstorms highlights the powerful potential technology, especially computers, has in education. He envisions a future where the computer's role goes beyond just " computer-aided instruction, " and instead it becomes an instrument that helps people think and learn creatively. Rather than for computers to " program the child, " the child should take on an active ro...

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi pentingnya kemampuan membaca bagi siswa sekolah dasar sebagai fondasi untuk memahami berbagai materi pelajaran, khususnya dalam isi bacaan. Salah satu cara yang dapat dilakukan adalah melakukan kegiatan dengan metode read aloud . Read membacakan nyaring orang tua atau guru kepada anak. Penelitin bertujuan mengetahui bacaan dan persepsi terhadap Pendekatan digunak...

A text-to-speech (TTS) synthesizer is a computer-based system that can automatically read text aloud. Fujitsu is developing a Mandarin TTS system using state-of-the-art technologies. The prosodic structure of synthesized text provides important information for making synthetic speech produced by a TTS system more natural and understandable. This paper describes a global probability estimation m...

Unrestricted English text can be converted to speech by applying phonological rules and handling exceptions with a look-up table. However, this approach is highly labor intensive since each entry and rule must be hand-crafted. NETtalk is an alternative approach that is based on an automated learning procedure for a parallel network of deterministic processing units. ~ f t e r ' training on a co...

A think-aloud method was used to examine the content of information available to working memory during narrative comprehension in a CHI population. Twenty severe CHI participants (>1 year post-injury) and 20 controls talked aloud after they read each sentence of story narratives. Trabasso and Magliano's (1996a) verbal protocol analysis was then used to code for the production of inferential and...

There is strong scientific consensus that emphasizing print-to-sound relationships is critical when learning to read alphabetic languages. Nevertheless, reading instruction varies across English-speaking countries, from intensive phonic training to multicuing environments that teach sound- and meaning-based strategies. We sought to understand the behavioral and neural consequences of these diff...