REMEDIAL WRITING SOFTWARE FOR THE LEARNING DISABLED

学习障碍者的补习写作软件

• 批准号: 3509193
• 负责人: SANDRA E HUTCHINS
• 金额: $ 21.18万
• 依托单位: EMERSON AND STERN ASSOCIATES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-03-01 至 1992-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3509193
• 关键词: biomedical equipment resource; clinical biomedical equipment; communication disorders; computer assisted instruction; computer system design /evaluation; language disorders; learning disorders; remedial /special education; speech disorders; speech synthesizers

The overall goal of this effort is to prototype WRIRE THIS WAY as an effective, but relatively low-cost software tool for remediating the types of writing problems specific to the learning disabled population. To overcome the reading difficulties found in this group, the tool will include a natural-sounding text-to-speech synthesizer. The software and speech synthesizer will be produced for the Apple IIgs, which is cost- accessible in educational environments. Phase II will expand the sophistication of the real-time grammar checker found in WRITE THS WAY, whose feasibility was demonstrated on the Apple IIe/IIc in Phase I. Other aims for the project include expanding the ability of the software to provide assistance with spelling and grammar errors; producing a Curriculum Guide; conducting a controlled study of the effectiveness of the software; and publishing the results of the research. The major technological innovations of Phase II will be the incorporation of semantic analysis in the grammer portion of the program and the development of a low-cost speech synthesizer that derives suprasegmental characteristics (pitch and duration) from the output of the parser. This effort will characteristics (pitch and duration) from the output of the parser. This effort will not only make real-time natural language parsing available to the learning disabled, but it will open the door to afforable speech synthesis for the blind and vocally impaired.

这项工作的总体目标是将 WRIRE THIS WAY 原型化为 有效但成本相对较低的软件工具，用于修复 学习障碍人群特有的写作问题类型。 为了克服该组中发现的阅读困难，该工具将 包括一个听起来自然的文本到语音合成器。该软件和 将为 Apple IIgs 生产语音合成器，成本低廉 在教育环境中可以访问。第二阶段将扩大 WRITE THS WAY 中实时语法检查器的复杂性， 其可行性已在第一阶段的 Apple IIe/IIc 上得到验证。 该项目的其他目标包括扩展软件的功能 提供拼写和语法错误方面的帮助；生产一个 课程指南；对有效性进行对照研究 软件；并发表研究结果。主要 第二阶段的技术创新将包括 程序语法部分的语义分析 开发一种低成本语音合成器，可产生超分段 解析器输出的特征（音高和持续时间）。这 努力将特征（音调和持续时间）从输出 解析器。这项努力不仅会让实时自然语言 解析可供学习障碍者使用，但它将打开大门 为盲人和声乐障碍人士提供经济实惠的语音合成。