Spanish KidSound Casting

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We are currently looking for participants aged 4 to 12 who are fluent in Spanish as their first language and speak Spanish at home. We are improving voice recognition technology for children to impact educational tools and other technology for kids. This project will enhance voice recognition for accents, intonation, pronunciation, and other linguistic aspects among children aged 4-12. This project involves a recording session consisting of twenty prompts per speaker. Each participant will engage in spontaneous, letter naming scripted, segmented, and rapid automatized naming tasks.

Scope & Responsibilities:

• Record twenty prompts per participant, including the following:
  • Spontaneous recordings: Describe a given picture in your own words.
  • Letter naming: Name all the letters in the alphabet with a one second pause between each
  • Scripted: Speaker reads or repeats provided sentences.
  • Segmented or sounding out words: Speaker sounds out the words.
  • Rapid automatized naming: Name items in an image as quickly as possible

Recording environment:

• All recordings will take place in the speakers’ home environment utilizing a personal mobile phone or laptop.
• Speakers and their parents/caregivers are encouraged to record in a quiet environment with minimal background noise.