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Accuracy of the Language Environment Analysis (LENATM) system for estimating child and adult speech in laboratory settings

Topic:

NA

Authors:

Marchman, Weisleder, Hurtado, Fernald

Journal/Publication:

Journal of Child Language

Year:

2020
Participant Age Range:
17 –
21 months

Sample Size:

108

Participant Language:

Spanish

Abstract:

Laboratory observations are a mainstay of language development research, but transcription is costly. We test whether speech recognition technology originally designed for day-long contexts can be usefully applied to this use-case. We compared automated a