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  <Title>Advances in Children's Speech Recognition within an Interactive Literacy Tutor</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Pioneering research by MIT and CMU as well as more recent work by the IBM Watch-me-Read Project have demonstrated that speech recognition can play an effective role in systems designed to improve children's reading abilities (Mostow et al., 1994; Zue et al., 1996).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In CMU's Project LISTEN, for example, the tutor operates by prompting children to read individual sentences out loud. The tutor listens to the child using speech recognition and extracts features that can be used to detect oral reading miscues (Mostow et al., 2002; Tam et al. 2003). Upon detecting reading miscues, the tutor provides appropriate feedback to the child. Recent re-</Paragraph>
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