Advances and Challenges of Child ASR
Abeer Alwan

Leveraging ASR and LLMs for Automated Scoring and Feedback in Children's Spoken Language Assessments
Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Kaiyuan Zhang, Andre Mai, Mohan Shi, Alaria Long, Julie Washington, Robin Morris, Abeer Alwan

Towards explainable automatic spoken language assessment
Marian Marchal, Joey Stuiver, Nafsika Lachana, Max van der Velde, Josine Verhagen, Joost Kruis

Zero-Shot Speech LLMs for Multi-Aspect Evaluation of L2 Speech: Challenges and Opportunities
Aditya Kamlesh Parikh, Cristian Tejedor Garcia, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik

Combining word and phoneme speech recognition for fluency assessment of young children's oral reading
Lucile Gelin, Lucas Block Medin, Alexandre Cruel, Alice Liu

Automatic Pronunciation Assessment for L2 English by Incorporating Suprasegmental Features and Weighted Loss Function
Wenwei Dong, Catia Cucchiarini, Roeland van Hout, Helmer Strik

Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech as Golden Speech Generator: A Systematic Framework and its Applicability in Automatic Pronunciation Assessment
Tien-Hong Lo, Meng-Ting Tsai, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen

Articulatory-Enhanced Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis Models: A Multi-dimensional Error Analysis
Xing Wei, Catia Cucchiarini, Roeland van Hout, Helmer Strik

Comparative Pronunciation Assessment and Feedback with Interpretable Speech Features
Charles McGhee, Mark J.F. Gales, Kate M. Knill

Speak & Improve Challenge 2025
Mengjie Qian, Kate M. Knill, Stefano Bannò, Siyuan Tang, Penny Karanasou, Mark J.F. Gales, Diane Nicholls

The NTNU System at the S&I Challenge 2025 ASR Open Track
Jhih-Rong Guo, Kuan-Tang Huang, An-Ci Peng, Berlin Chen

Team Perezoso’s ASR and SLA System for Speak & Improve Challenge 2025
Danwei Cai, Nitin Madnani, Kevin Yancey

One Whisper to Grade Them All
Nhan Phan, Anusha Porwal, Yaroslav Getman, Ekaterina Voskoboinik, Tamás Grósz, Mikko Kurimo

Mutual Shadowing among Speakers of World Englishes and Its Application to Investigating the Influence of Accents on Listening Fluency
Akari Fujiwara, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi, Daisuke Saito

From quiet to confident: A VR tool for loudness training in educational public speaking
Ïo Valls-Ratés, Oliver Niebuhr

Unraveling the relationship between objective and subjective measures of oral reading fluency
Wieke Harmsen, Max van der Velde, Roeland van Hout, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik

Leveraging Articulatory Information to Enhance End-to-End Models for L2 Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis
Xing Wei, Wenwei Dong, Catia Cucchiarini, Roeland van Hout, Helmer Strik

Towards few-shot isolated word reading assessment
Reuben Smit, Retief Louw, Herman Kamper

Error and Recovery Analysis of Intent-based and LLM-based SDS
Steven Pepe, Rahul Divekar, Veronika Timpe-Laughlin, Tetyana Sydorenko, Judit Dombi, Saerhim Oh

Harnessing GPT-Image-1 to Create High-Quality Illustrated Texts
Sophie Rendina, Manny Rayner, Branislav Bédi, Hakeem Beedar

JCAPT: A Joint Modeling Approach for CAPT
Tzu-Hsuan Yang, Yue-Yang He, Berlin Chen

Automatically assessing oral narratives of Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Retief Louw, Emma Sharratt, Febe de Wet, Christiaan Jacobs, Annelien Smith, Herman Kamper

Feature-based analysis of oral narratives from Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Emma Sharratt, Annelien Smith, Retief Louw, Daleen Klop, Febe de Wet, Herman Kamper

Fine-Tuning Children's Speech Recognition for Estonian as a First and Second Language
Kelly Lilles, Maarja Männik, Tanel Alumäe

Rethinking Reading Miscue Annotation Protocol: Insights from Re-examining Dutch Child Reading Annotation
Lingyun Gao, Cristian Tejedor Garcia, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik

From Features to Fluency: Predicting Perceived Speech Fluency of Preschool Children for Language Proficiency Assessments
Valentin Kany

Best Practices and Considerations for Child Speech Corpus Collection and Curation in Educational, Clinical, and Forensic Scenarios
John H.L. Hansen, Satwik Dutta, Ellen Grand

Developing a Cantonese Pronunciation Error Detection System with Attribute-Based Modeling for Educational Applications
Shiqi Han, Mostafa Shahin, Beena Ahmed

Scaling Conformation Bias in Automatic Speech Recognition
Nathan Roll, Calbert Graham

The SoapBox Labs ASR System for Speak & Improve Challenge 2025
Siva Reddy Gangireddy, Armin Saeb, Arnaud Letondor, Mauro Nicolao, Amelia Kelly

The BU-MEF System for the Speak & Improve Challenge 2025: Spoken Language Assessment Using Speech and Textual Representations
Merve Unlu Menevse, Ebru Arisoy, Arzucan Ozgur

The NTNU System at the S&I Challenge 2025 SLA Open Track
Hong-Yun Lin, Tien Hong Lo, Yu Hsuan Fang, Jhen Ke Lin, Chung Chun Wang, Hao Chien Lu, Berlin Chen

Advancing Automated Speaking Assessment Leveraging Multifaceted Relevance and Grammar Information
Hao-Chien Lu, Jhen-Ke Lin, Hong-Yun Lin, Chung-Chun Wang, Berlin Chen

Exploring Ordinal Classification for Spoken Language Assessment
Anusha Porwal, Nhan Phan, Yaroslav Getman, Ekaterina Voskoboinik, Tamás Grósz, Mikko Kurimo

Acoustically Precise Hesitation Tagging Is Essential for End-to-End Verbatim Transcription Systems
Jhen-Ke Lin, Hao-Chien Lu, Chung-Chun Wang, Hong-Yun Lin, Berlin Chen

Introducing the Speak & Improve Corpus 2025: an L2 English Speech Corpus for Language Assessment and Feedback
Kate M. Knill, Diane Nicholls, Mark J.F. Gales, Mengjie Qian, Pawel Stroinski

ProMoVecs 1.0: Preliminary Label unaware i-vector framework based representations for pronunciation assessment of second language learner's monologue
Meenakshi Sirigiraju, Chiranjeevi Yarra

Uncovering Lexical Stress Patterns: A Layered Analysis of Self-Supervised Representations for Automatic Syllable Stress Detection
Jhansi Mallela, Upendra Vishwanath Y.S., Praneeth Soundaraj, Chiranjeevi Yarra

Effect of Prompt Corrective Feedback in Learning Syntactic Form Using Trialogue-based Computer-Assisted Language Learning System
Ryuya Tanaka, Tsuneo Kato, Seiichi Yamamoto, Akihiro Tamura, Mariko Sugahara

Question Generation for Assessing Early Literacy Reading Comprehension
Xiaocheng Yang, Sumuk Shashidhar, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Natural Language-based Assessment of L2 Oral Proficiency using LLMs
Stefano Bannò, Rao Ma, Mengjie Qian, Siyuan Tang, Kate Knill, Mark Gales

Data Augmentation for Spoken Grammatical Error Correction
Penny Karanasou, Mengjie Qian, Stefano Bannò, Mark J.F. Gales, Kate M. Knill

A Novel Data Augmentation Approach for Automatic Speaking Assessment on Opinion Expressions
Chung-Chun Wang, Jhen-Ke Lin, Hao-Chien Lu, Hong-Yun Lin, Berlin Chen

Refined Analysis of Reading Miscues
Gloria María Montoya Gómez, Pol Ghesquière, Hugo Van hamme

Synthesizing True Golden Voices to Enhance Pronunciation Training for Individual Language Learners
Ryoga Yamanaka, Kento Osa, Akari Fujiwara, Geng Haopeng, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yusuke Inoue

Towards a Common Phone Space for Arabic, Persian, and Urdu: Leveraging Shared Phonology for Low-Resource G2P
Harinie Sivaramasethu, Bhavana Akkiraju, Narasinga Vamshiraghusimha, Srihari Bandarupalli, Aadil Kak, Anil Kumar Vupulla