CONF Piton_INTERSPEECH_2023/IDIAP Using Commercial ASR Solutions to Assess Reading Skills in Children: A Case Report Piton, Timothy Hermann, Enno Pasqualotto, Angela Cohen, Marjolaine Magimai-Doss, Mathew Bavelier, Daphné Automatic Speech Recognition Children speech recognition Reading Assessment EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/papers/2023/Piton_INTERSPEECH_2023.pdf PUBLIC Proceedings of Interspeech 2023 4573-4577 https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2023/piton23_interspeech.html URL doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-928 doi Reading is an acquired skill that is essential for integrating and participating in today's society. Yet, becoming literate can be particularly laborious for some children. Identifying reading difficulties early enough is the first, necessary step toward remediation. Here we investigate the opportunities and limitations of integrating commercial, off-the-shelf automatic speech recognition (ASR) services from IBM Watson to ease the administration and evaluation of children's reading assessment tests in French and Italian.