@inproceedings{pine-etal-2023-readalong,
    title = "{R}ead{A}long Studio Web Interface for Digital Interactive Storytelling",
    author = "Pine, Aidan  and
      Huggins-Daines, David  and
      Joanis, Eric  and
      Littell, Patrick  and
      Tessier, Marc  and
      Torkornoo, Delasie  and
      Knowles, Rebecca  and
      Kuhn, Roland  and
      Lothian, Delaney",
    editor = {Kochmar, Ekaterina  and
      Burstein, Jill  and
      Horbach, Andrea  and
      Laarmann-Quante, Ronja  and
      Madnani, Nitin  and
      Tack, Ana{\"\i}s  and
      Yaneva, Victoria  and
      Yuan, Zheng  and
      Zesch, Torsten},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.14",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.14",
    pages = "163--172",
    abstract = "We develop an interactive web-based user interface for performing textspeech alignment and creating digital interactive {``}read-along audio books that highlight words as they are spoken and allow users to replay individual words when clicked. We build on an existing Python library for zero-shot multilingual textspeech alignment (Littell et al., 2022), extend it by exposing its functionality through a RESTful API, and rewrite the underlying speech recognition engine to run in the browser. The ReadAlong Studio Web App is open-source, user-friendly, prioritizes privacy and data sovereignty, allows for a variety of standard export formats, and is designed to work for the majority of the world{'}s languages.",
}

We develop an interactive web-based user interface for performing textspeech alignment and creating digital interactive {``}read-along audio books that highlight words as they are spoken and allow users to replay individual words when clicked. We build on an existing Python library for zero-shot multilingual textspeech alignment (Littell et al., 2022), extend it by exposing its functionality through a RESTful API, and rewrite the underlying speech recognition engine to run in the browser. The ReadAlong Studio Web App is open-source, user-friendly, prioritizes privacy and data sovereignty, allows for a variety of standard export formats, and is designed to work for the majority of the world{'}s languages.
Pine, Aidan Huggins-Daines, David Joanis, Eric Littell, Patrick Tessier, Marc Torkornoo, Delasie Knowles, Rebecca Kuhn, Rol Lothian, Delaney
ReadAlong Studio Web Interface for Digital Interactive Storytelling