Developing Speech Processing Technologies for Shared Book Reading with a Computer.

We present a preliminary report on developing technology for an application that supports shared book reading. We dis-cuss how speech processing technology can be used to auto-mate different components of the system for oral reading fluency evaluation during shared book reading and the challenges posed by this new context in comparison to other automated reading tutor systems. We also present performance evaluation of the baseline system on a corpus of read speech. of our is to technology to support the