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Designing iOS Application Software to Assess ESL Reading Aloud Performance Using Siri

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K02712
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Foreign language education
Research InstitutionNiigata University

Principal Investigator

Kato Shigeo  新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 教授 (70347368)

Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥30,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords英語学習 / 音読 / 発音 / Siri / ミラーニューロン / 英語発音 / 英語音読 / アプリケーションソフト / 音声認識 / アプリケーション
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The project aimed at designing an iOS application software which can assess reading aloud performance by EFL/ESL learners, utilizing "Siri" (Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface). The assessment procedure is as follows: first, users activate Siri on their device for recording, 2) then read aloud the passage of their own choice, either typed by themselves, or copy & pasted from the Internet, and after completing reading aloud the passage for checking, users touch the button to check the percentage of correctly recognized words by Siri, out of the whole word count of the passage, with all of them (= correctly pronounced and hence recognized correctly) highlighted on the text on their devices. The software has already been on the Apple application store (Type:App, Platform:iOS, Apple ID:1294566813, App. Size: 20.4MB). Over 1,400 downloads have been counted on June 17th, 2018, and the evaluation of the users has been 4.8 stars (out of 5 levels).

Report

(4 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2015 Other

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Reading Aloud Performance and Listening Ability in an L2: The Case of College-Level Japanese EFL Users2015

    • Author(s)
      Kato, S. & Tanaka, K
    • Journal Title

      Open Journal of Modern Linguistics

      Volume: 5 Issue: 02 Pages: 187-206

    • DOI

      10.4236/ojml.2015.52015

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks] 発音Check!(4+): お好みの文章の英語発音をSiriでチェックしてみよう!

    • URL

      https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/%E7%99%BA%E9%9F%B3check/id1294566813?mt=8

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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