Development of Speech Training Aid System for Hearing-Impaired Children

Author

Yongbin Hu ; Taichang Wang ; Ronghuai Huang

Author_Institution

R&D Center for Knowledge Eng., Beijing Normal Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

15-18 July 2013

Firstpage

212

Lastpage

214

Abstract

The aim of speech training aid is to enhance the language abilities of the hearing-impaired Children. The traditional approach, utilization of photographs and teachers´ gestures, is revealed to be an inefficient way. This study proposes a Speech training aid system (STAS) based on C# & Flash technology to instruct hearing-impaired children on how to improve their language abilities. An experimental study was conducted in Nanjing School for the Deaf in China. The participants included two experienced school teachers and twenty students. The experimental results show that children´ accuracy and fluency of pronunciation have improved notably by utilizing STAS.

Keywords

computer based training; handicapped aids; C++ technology; China; Flash technology; Nanjing School for the Deaf; STAS; hearing-impaired children; language ability; pronunciation accuracy; pronunciation fluency; speech training aid system; Accuracy; Auditory system; Educational institutions; Speech; Speech recognition; Training; Hearing-impaired Children; Speech training aid system; language abilities;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2013.65

Filename

6601908