Subject: Recognizing children counting up/down From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Christian_V=F6geli?= <cvoegeli@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:53:19 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0065_01CCEFD7.04267CA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear List =20 I am looking for speech detection methods/algorithms that would allow to determine if a child is counting up or down correctly in the number = range from 0 to 100. =20 We want to use the methods in a software to help children with = dyscalculia. One of the basic skills to be acquired before doing math as such is to = be able to count. Our system would e.g. tell the child to start counting backwards from 51, starting with 51. The speech detection method would = then have to be able to decide if the child first speaks =93fifty one=94, = then =93fifty=94, =93forty nine=94, etc. =20 I know it=92s hard to do speech detection in children and that there is = only a limited number of samples to train e.g. an HMM, but I hope that by = knowing which number should be spoken and by limiting the detection to yes or = no, there might be a feasible way. =20 Do you have any suggestion to which algorithm we should investigate that might help with this particular problem? =20 Thanks for your help, Chris =20 =20 --- Dybuster AG Christian V=F6geli Weinbergstr. 20 CH-8001 Z=FCrich =20 Tel: +41 (0)44 250 76 10 Fax: +41 (0)44 250 76 11 <http://www.dybuster.com/> www.dybuster.com <mailto:cvoegeli@xxxxxxxx> cvoegeli@xxxxxxxx =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0065_01CCEFD7.04267CA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" = xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta = http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"><meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word = 12 (filtered medium)"><style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @xxxxxxxx {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} @xxxxxxxx {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} @xxxxxxxx {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-priority:99; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} p.MsoAcetate, li.MsoAcetate, div.MsoAcetate {mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Balloon Text Char"; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-style-type:personal-compose; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext;} span.BalloonTextChar {mso-style-name:"Balloon Text Char"; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Balloon Text"; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only;} @xxxxxxxx WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 2.0cm 70.85pt;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext=3D"edit" spidmax=3D"1026" /> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext=3D"edit"> <o:idmap v:ext=3D"edit" data=3D"1" /> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=3DDE-CH link=3Dblue = vlink=3Dpurple><div class=3DWordSection1><p class=3DMsoNormal>Dear = List<o:p></o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p = class=3DMsoNormal><span lang=3DEN-US>I am looking for speech detection = methods/algorithms that would allow to determine if a child is counting = up or down correctly in the number range from 0 to = 100.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = lang=3DEN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = lang=3DEN-US>We want to use the methods in a software to help children = with dyscalculia. One of the basic skills to be acquired before doing = math as such is to be able to count. Our system would e.g. tell the = child to start counting backwards from 51, starting with 51. The speech = detection method would then have to be able to decide if the child first = speaks “fifty one”, then “fifty”, “forty = nine”, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = lang=3DEN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = lang=3DEN-US>I know it’s hard to do speech detection in children = and that there is only a limited number of samples to train e.g. an HMM, = but I hope that by knowing which number should be spoken and by limiting = the detection to yes or no, there might be a feasible = way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = lang=3DEN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = lang=3DEN-US>Do you have any suggestion to which algorithm we should = investigate that might help with this particular = problem?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = lang=3DEN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = lang=3DEN-US>Thanks for your help,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p = class=3DMsoNormal><span lang=3DEN-US>Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p><p = class=3DMsoNormal><span lang=3DEN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p = class=3DMsoNormal><span lang=3DEN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p = class=3DMsoNormal>---<o:p></o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>Dybuster = AG<o:p></o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>Christian = V=F6geli<o:p></o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>Weinbergstr. = 20<o:p></o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>CH-8001 Z=FCrich<o:p></o:p></p><p = class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>Tel: +41 = (0)44 250 76 10<o:p></o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>Fax: +41 (0)44 250 76 = 11<o:p></o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><a = href=3D"http://www.dybuster.com/"><span = style=3D'color:blue'>www.dybuster.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p = class=3DMsoNormal><a href=3D"mailto:cvoegeli@xxxxxxxx"><span = style=3D'color:blue'>cvoegeli@xxxxxxxx</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p = class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html> ------=_NextPart_000_0065_01CCEFD7.04267CA0--