Are Children with Autism More Responsive to Animated Characters?

Few direct comparisons have been made between the responsiveness of children with autism to computer-generated or animated characters and their responsiveness to humans. Twelve 4- to 8-year-old children with autism interacted with a human therapist; a human-controlled, interactive avatar in a theme park; a human actor speaking like the avatar; and cartoon characters who sought social responses.

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Online Word-Spotting in Continuous Speech with Recurrent Neural Networks

In this paper we introduce a simplified architecture for gated recurrent neural networks that can be used in single-pass applications, where word-spotting needs to be done in real-time and phoneme-level information is not available for training. The network operates as a self-contained block in a strictly forward-pass configuration to directly generate keyword labels.

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