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Design and development of the lexical model considers the errors for better recognition accuracy.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>It is found that the recognition accuracy is increased to 75 percent when using context\u2010dependent (CD) phoneme model and phoneme refinement rule. Comparison between context\u2010independent phoneme models and CD phoneme model is also presented.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>The most frequent errors recognized and obtained from data collection and analysis illustrate and support that phonological deficit is the major factor for reading disabilities in dyslexics.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>This paper provides the first step towards materializing an automated speech recognition (ASR)\u2010based application to support reading for BM, which is the first language in Malaysia.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>The paper contributes to the knowledge of the most frequent error patterns for dyslexic children's reading in BM and to the knowledge that a CD phoneme model together with the phoneme refinement rule can built up a more fine\u2010tuned lexical model for an ASR specifically for dyslexic children's reading isolated words in BM.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/13287261011032652","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,3,13]],"date-time":"2010-03-13T07:05:38Z","timestamp":1268463938000},"page":"56-69","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Improving ASR performance using context\u2010dependent phoneme models"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Husniza","family":"Husni","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zulikha","family":"Jamaludin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2022022019525526900_b1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Banerjee, S., Beck, J. and Mostow, J. 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