Culturally Aware Intelligent Learning Environments for Resource-Poor Countries

This paper presents current work being done on the development of a speech and language technology (SLT) based intelligent tutoring system for coaching young learners from a Caribbean context in developing literacy skills. The system uses speech recognition, socio-cultural modelling and educational...

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Published inCulture and Computing. Design Thinking and Cultural Computing pp. 450 - 460
Main Authors Mohammed, Phaedra S., Coy, André
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Cultural awareness
Intelligent tutoring system
Literacy
Speech
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Summary:This paper presents current work being done on the development of a speech and language technology (SLT) based intelligent tutoring system for coaching young learners from a Caribbean context in developing literacy skills. The system uses speech recognition, socio-cultural modelling and educational technology techniques that aim to enable two-way, dynamic communication between a young reader and the synthetic SLT tutor. Two goals of the research are to firstly model a reader computationally from instructional and socio-cultural perspectives, and secondly to create speech models that capture the unique linguistic variations and pronunciations expressed by young readers in Trinidad and Jamaica in particular.
ISBN:9783030774301
3030774309
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-77431-8_28