Deep Learning for Assessment of Oral Reading Fluency
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| author | Vaidya, Mithilesh Sahoo, Binaya Kumar Rao, Preeti |
| author_facet | Vaidya, Mithilesh Sahoo, Binaya Kumar Rao, Preeti |
| contents | Reading fluency assessment is a critical component of literacy programmes, serving to guide and monitor early education interventions. Given the resource intensive nature of the exercise when conducted by teachers, the development of automatic tools that can operate on audio recordings of oral reading is attractive as an objective and highly scalable solution. Multiple complex aspects such as accuracy, rate and expressiveness underlie human judgements of reading fluency. In this work, we investigate end-to-end modeling on a training dataset of children's audio recordings of story texts labeled by human experts. The pre-trained wav2vec2.0 model is adopted due its potential to alleviate the challenges from the limited amount of labeled data. We report the performance of a number of system variations on the relevant measures, and also probe the learned embeddings for lexical and acoustic-prosodic features known to be important to the perception of reading fluency. |
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| spellingShingle | Deep Learning for Assessment of Oral Reading Fluency Vaidya, Mithilesh Sahoo, Binaya Kumar Rao, Preeti Computation and Language Sound Audio and Speech Processing Reading fluency assessment is a critical component of literacy programmes, serving to guide and monitor early education interventions. Given the resource intensive nature of the exercise when conducted by teachers, the development of automatic tools that can operate on audio recordings of oral reading is attractive as an objective and highly scalable solution. Multiple complex aspects such as accuracy, rate and expressiveness underlie human judgements of reading fluency. In this work, we investigate end-to-end modeling on a training dataset of children's audio recordings of story texts labeled by human experts. The pre-trained wav2vec2.0 model is adopted due its potential to alleviate the challenges from the limited amount of labeled data. We report the performance of a number of system variations on the relevant measures, and also probe the learned embeddings for lexical and acoustic-prosodic features known to be important to the perception of reading fluency. |
| title | Deep Learning for Assessment of Oral Reading Fluency |
| topic | Computation and Language Sound Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19426 |