Spaulding, Samuel, and Cynthia Breazeal. "Pronunciation-based child-robot game interactions to promote literacy skills." 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). IEEE, 2019.
Spaulding, Samuel, and Cynthia Breazeal. "Pronunciation-based child-robot game interactions to promote literacy skills." 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). IEEE, 2019.
In this paper we present additional results from a prior study of speech-based games to promote early literacy skills through child-robot interaction [6]. The additional data and results support our original conclusion, that pronunciation analysis software can be an effective enabler of speech child-robot interactions. We also include a comparison of other pronunciation services, an updated version of the SpeechAce API and a new technology from Soapbox Labs. We reflect on some lessons learned and introduce a redesigned version of the game interaction called `RhymeRacer' based on the results and observations from both data collections.