• Week 2

  17 Sep 2017

  Collecting data Our first major task is finding sufficient data for both training and testing the speech recognition system. Our speech recognition system is unlikely to learn without sufficient language data (much like a young child). We suspect that if we train a speech recognition system on baby-talk to recognize...

• Week 1

  10 Sep 2017

  Interpretation Before I dig into my first week weekly findings I would like to give some insight into why this project is interesting to me. First and foremost, it’s about understanding people, particularly the littlest of us. How do we develop into the beings that we are? I mean, who...

• Introduction

  21 Aug 2017

  Hi, welcome to the research blog I will be starting this academic year. The research project, as you may have guessed it, deals with modeling language learning. How do children learn language? Are there certain teaching strategies or types of speech that support successful language acquisition? Well, hopefully the work...