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<Paper uid="W05-0212">
  <Title>A Software Tool for Teaching Reading Based on Text-to-Speech Letter-to-Phoneme Rules</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Native speakers of English who are good readers can &amp;quot;sound out&amp;quot; words or names from printed text, even if they have never seen them before, although they may not be conscious of the strategies they use.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> No tools are available today that can convey that knowledge to learners, showing them the rules that apply in English text.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> We have adapted the letter-to-phoneme component of a text-to-speech synthesizer to a web-based software system that can teach word decoding to non-native speakers of English, English-speaking children, and adult learners.</Paragraph>
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