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This study presents an aural comprehension aid to help Japanese travelers hear a counter clerk’s questions at fast food restaurants in the US. The prototype of the aid employed a speech recognition method in which a user assists the speech recognizer of the mobile device. The user presses the device’s button as promptly as possible when missed words were spoken so that the recognizer perceives the moment, which is utilized for improving recognition accuracy. More than a hundred dialogs between a Japanese traveler and fast-food clerks were recorded and used to evaluate the prototype. The evaluation showed that the proposed method could improve recognition accuracy, though the improvement was not sufficient for practical use.
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Nakanishi, H. (2007). Designing an Aural Comprehension Aid for Interlingual Communication. In: Ishida, T., Fussell, S.R., Vossen, P.T.J.M. (eds) Intercultural Collaboration. IWIC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4568. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74000-1_13
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