Teaching the pronunciation of Japanese double-mora phonemes using speech recognition technology

Speech Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 131-143

  Kawai, Goh ^a   Hirose, Keikichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TEACHING;

COMPUTER-AIDED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL) SYSTEMS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0034140426     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00041-2     Document Type: Article

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