Different aspects of expert pronunciation quality ratings and their relation to scores produced by speech recognition algorithms

Speech Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 109-119

  Cucchiarini, Catia ^a   Strik, Helmer ^a   Boves, Lou ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC PRONUNCIATION ASSESSMENT; SPEECH QUALITY;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0034140299     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00040-0     Document Type: Article

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