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ERIC Number: EJ1443821
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Sep
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1360-2357
EISSN: EISSN-1573-7608
Subject Dependent Speech Verification Approach for Assistive Special Education
Umut Zeki; Tolgay Karanfiller; Kamil Yurtkan
Education and Information Technologies, v29 n13 p16157-16175 2024
The developmental, characteristics and educational competencies of students who need special education are developing slowly in compared to their agemates. This is because their expressive language is different. In order to overcome these challenges, assistive technologies can be used under the supervision of the teachers. In this paper, a person dependent speech verification approach is proposed for special education students. The system verifies the speech of special education students in various ways. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is employed for the classification task. Audio signals that are collected as datasets are accomplished by collecting samples from the real education centers involving special education students. For each subject, a different CNN is trained. Obtained audio signals undergo a frequency domain transform, and then their spectrograms are computed. The spectrogram images of every audio sample are then processed as inputs to the CNN. In this way, better representations of the audio signals are achieved where the spectrogram images of the audio files of different subjects are discriminable. This is also the result of special education students' personal and unique speaking styles. The proposed approach is tested on the dataset that is constructed by real subject recordings. The system achieves promising results by performing comparable recognition accuracies of around 96%.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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