Toward the use of speech and natural language technology in intervention for a language-disordered population

We describe the design of Simone Says an interactive soft- ware environment for language remediation that brings to- gether research in speech recognition, natural language pro- cessing and computer-aided instruction. The underlying technology for the implementation and the system?s even- tual evaluation are also discussed.

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