A Reading Tutor that Listens 
From: Carnegie Mellon

Project LISTEN (Literacy Innovation that Speech Technology ENables) is an
inter-disciplinary research project at Carnegie Mellon University to develop
a novel tool to improve literacy - an automated Reading Tutor that displays
stories on a computer screen and listens to children read aloud. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~listen/