STTR Phase I: Commercializing an intelligent reading tutor for mobile devices

STTR第一阶段：移动设备智能阅读导师的商业化

• 批准号: 1549808
• 负责人: John Carney
• 金额: $ 22.46万
• 依托单位: Carney Labs, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1549808&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; Commercializing; intelligent; reading

This STTR Phase I project will commercialize a reading intelligent tutor and take it from a university-based research environment to a commercially viable product. Phase I will concentrate on the research objectives of finalizing technical innovations and testing and hardening the software for commercial use. A unique feature of this intelligent tutor is its content authoring capability that provides teachers and support staffs the ability to create reading material to best meet the needs of their learners without having to know anything about programming, linguistics or speech recognition. Another innovation of this tutor is the ability to provide error correction while reading and promoting fluency. The initial impact of this project is the ability to improve literacy for children using an intelligent tutor that's commercially available on today's mobile devices and easy to use and author personalized content. The broader impact is to leverage and design the software for adult learners. Literacy itself is more important than ever in today's global, high-tech economy. The proposed research of this STTR project will address literacy at all ages using an environment that's personalized, accessible, mobile, and adapted for all users.This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project will focus on the commercialization of a research based reading intelligent tutor. The two technical hurdles are user interface (UI) and providing fluent speech recognition. One of the major difficulties in developing content that relies on the computer to provide coaching is providing the needed pronunciation information for each word. A crucial success is the ability for the reading tutor to allow the teachers and others to create content for the system without having to know anything about programming, linguistics or speech recognition. Another crucial success is the ability to allow the teachers to specify custom word pronunciations for out of dictionary words using brackets and the normal 26 characters of the English alphabet. There are not any reading fluency programs in the commercial market that combine this technical process with a "teacher friendly" user interface. This innovation enables teachers to truly create and add relevant reading materials to the reading intelligent tutor for their learners. The goal of the research in this proposal is to address the technical hurdles and prepare the reading intelligent tutoring software for commercialization across multiple platforms and mobile devices.

这个STTR I阶段项目将使阅读智能导师商业化，并将其从大学的研究环境带到商业上可行的产品。 第一阶段将集中精力确定技术创新，测试和硬化商业用途的研究目标。这位智能导师的一个独特功能是其内容创作能力，该功能为教师和支持员工提供了创建阅读材料以最佳满足学习者需求的能力，而无需了解编程，语言学或语音识别的任何知识。 这位导师的另一个创新是在阅读和促进流利度时提供错误校正的能力。该项目的最初影响是使用智能导师改善儿童识字能力，该智能导师可在当今的移动设备上商购，并且易于使用和撰写个性化内容。更广泛的影响是为成人学习者利用和设计软件。在当今全球高科技经济中，识字本身比以往任何时候都重要。该STTR项目的拟议研究将使用一个个性化，可访问，移动和适用于所有用户的环境来解决所有年龄段的识字率。本小型企业技术转移阶段I阶段项目将重点介绍基于研究的阅读智能导师的商业化。 这两个技术障碍是用户界面（UI），并提供流利的语音识别。 开发依赖计算机提供教练的内容的主要困难之一是为每个单词提供所需的发音信息。至关重要的成功是阅读导师允许教师和其他人为系统创建内容的能力，而不必了解编程，语言学或语音识别。另一个至关重要的成功是能够允许教师使用括号和英语字母的正常字典为单词单词中指定自定义单词发音。商业市场中没有任何阅读流利计划将这一技术过程与“教师友好”用户界面相结合。这项创新使教师能够为阅读智能导师为学习者真正创建和添加相关阅读材料。该提案中研究的目的是解决技术障碍，并准备阅读智能辅导软件，以跨多个平台和移动设备进行商业化。