Speech detection showed preliminary success but remained challenging in noisy settings, particularly for speaker differentiation, children's voices, and diverse dialects¶

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q2 i? ASR tasks achieved preliminary success but struggled with speaker differentiation, detecting children's voices, understanding different dialects, and translating across languages in noisy classroom settings. → speech

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Noakes, S., Shell, A., Murillo, A., Van Nostrand, P., Ruiz, P., Cornick, S., and Karim, S. (2024, October). An Ethical and Equitable Vision of AI in Education: Learning Across 28 Exploratory Projects. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/232

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Cohort technical findings on speech detection, reported in Table 5. Projects such as EduASR trained state-of-the-art ASR and diarization models on diverse classroom datasets, and TeachFX manually transcribed classroom audio to address known ASR biases for diverse dialects.

"Preliminary success, though challenging in noisy settings, particularly for speaker differentiation, detecting children's voices, accurately understanding different dialects, and translating across different languages."

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