19 papers · ranked by Valyu relevance
Oscar Woolnough, Cristian Donos, Aidan Curtis, Patrick S. Rollo + 4 more
Reading words aloud is a foundational aspect of the acquisition of literacy. The rapid rate at which multiple distributed neural substrates are engaged in this process can only be probed via techniques with high spatiotemporal resolution. We used direct intracranial recordings in a large cohort to create a holistic yet…
Gianluca Schiavo, Nadia Mana, Ornella Mich, Massimo Zancanaro + 1 more
'Remo Job'] The paper presents the design of an assistive reading tool that integrates read-aloud technology with eye-tracking to regulate the speed of reading and support struggling readers in following the text while listening to it. The paper describes the design rationale of this approach, following the theory of…
Lyam M. Bailey, Heath E. Matheson, Jonathon M. Fawcett, Glen E. Bodner + 1 more
Single word reading depends on multiple types of information processing: readers must process low-level visual properties of the stimulus, form orthographic and phonological representations of the word, and retrieve semantic content from memory. Reading aloud introduces an additional type of processing wherein readers…
Mustafa Ozturk, Muhammet Sonmez, Mucahit Durmaz, Abdurrahman Baki Topcam + 3 more
The study recommended implementing teacher-led, face-to-face interactive read-aloud activities with children’s picture books to support students with high reading anxiety and negative attitudes toward reading. The study employed an action research design and included a sample of 32 second-grade primary school students.…
Mona Franke, Philip Hoole, Ramona Schreier, Simone Falk + 4 more
'Pierluigi Zoccolotti' 'Anja Lowit' 'Sónia Frota' 'Marina Vigário'] Speech fluency is a major challenge for young persons who stutter. Reading aloud, in particular, puts high demands on fluency, not only regarding online text decoding and articulation, but also in terms of prosodic performance. A written text has to be…
Bohua Zhang, Alhassan Abdullah, Minmin Yan, Yongqing Hou + 2 more
'Antao Chen' 'Helen McLaren'] The production effect (PE) is a phenomenon where reading words aloud, rather than silently, during study leads to improved recognition memory. Human recognition memory can be divided into recollection (recognition based on complex contextual information) and familiarity (recognition based…
Mathieu Bourguignon, Nicola Molinaro, Mikel Lizarazu, Samu Taulu + 4 more
To gain novel insights into how the human brain processes self-produced auditory information during reading aloud, we investigated the coupling between neuromagnetic activity and the temporal envelope of the heard speech sounds (i.e., speech brain tracking) in a group of adults who 1) read a text aloud, 2) listened to…
Maria De Luca, Maria Pontillo, Silvia Primativo, Donatella Spinelli + 1 more
'Pierluigi Zoccolotti'] In reading aloud, the eye typically leads over voice position. In the present study, eye movements and voice utterances were simultaneously recorded and tracked during the reading of a meaningful text to evaluate the eye-voice lead in 16 dyslexic and 16 same-age control readers. Dyslexic…
Charvi Vitthal, B.S. Shreeharsha, Kamini Sabu, Preeti Rao
Literacy assessment is an important activity for education administrators across the globe. Typically achieved in a school setting by testing a child's oral reading, it is intensive in human resources. While automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a potential solution to the problem, it tends to be computationally…
Gao, Lingyun, Tejedor-Garcia, Cristian + 4 more
Automatic reading aloud evaluation can provide valuable support to teachers by enabling more efficient scoring of reading exercises. However, research on reading evaluation systems and applications remains limited. We present a novel multimodal approach that leverages audio and knowledge from text resources. In…
Brendan Walsh, Mark Hamilton, Greg Newby, Xi Wang + 7 more
'Sheng Zhao' 'Lei He' 'S. Zhang' 'Eric Dettinger' 'William T. Freeman' 'Markus Weimer'] An audiobook can dramatically improve a work of literature's accessibility and improve reader engagement. However, audiobooks can take hundreds of hours of human effort to create, edit, and publish. In this work, we present a system…
Max van der Velde, Wieke Harmsen, Bernard P. Veldkamp, Remco Feskens + 2 more
Although the ability to comprehend what one is reading is one of the most fundamental necessities to function within society, the reading comprehension skills of students have recently been on the decline in many countries. An essential prerequisite to reading comprehension is the ability to read fluently, which is…
Alan Taitz, Diego E Shalom, Marcos A Trevisan
Silent reading is a cognitive operation that produces verbal content with no vocal output. One relevant question is the extent to which this verbal content is processed as overt speech in the brain. To address this, we investigated the signatures of articulatory processing during reading. We acquired sound, eye…
Griffin Dietz Smith, Dianna Yee, Jennifer King Chen, Leah Findlater
Identifying mistakes (i.e., miscues) made while reading aloud is commonly approached post-hoc by comparing automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcriptions to the target reading text. However, post-hoc methods perform poorly when ASR inaccurately transcribes verbatim speech. To improve on current methods for reading…
Vanessa de Oliveira Martins-Reis, Dâmaris Alves de Araújo Pedroso, Letícia Mendes de Almeida, Edlaine Souza Pereira + 2 more
'Letícia Mendes de Almeida' 'Edlaine Souza Pereira' 'Luciana Mendonça Alves' 'Letícia Correa Celeste'] Title: ABSTRACT Purpose to verify whether fluency and reading comprehension vary throughout the third year of elementary school and can be used as performance indicators in reading. Methods this is a prospective…
Santosh Kumar Barnwal, Uma Shanker Tiwary
Repeated reading (RR) helps learners, who have little to no experience with reading fluently to gain confidence, speed and process words automatically. The benefits of repeated readings include helping all learners with fact recall, aiding identification of learners' main ideas and vocabulary, increasing comprehension…
Marc Brysbaert, Anke Vantieghem
Silent reading often involves phonological encoding of the text in addition to orthographic processing. The nature of the phonological code is debated, however: Is it an abstract code or does it contain information about the pronunciation of the visual stimulus? To answer this question, we investigated the relationship…
Ryan Staples, J. Vivian Dickens, Sara M. Dyslin, Andrew T. DeMarco + 3 more
Diagnosis of alexia has historically focused on syndromes, such as surface alexia, which capture discrete patterns of reading deficits observed in some patients, but do not describe the breadth of reading deficits observed in practice. Aphasia research has recently shifted focus to language process impairments rather…
Michael Kodochian
In 2023, Lubineau et al. published an article [1] detailing several experiments carried out with dyslexic readers. These authors attempted to measure the change in reading performance under different reading conditions using flickering devices. Beyond the low-frequency systems which have nevertheless shown their…