Automatic scoring of pronunciation quality

Speech Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 83-93

  Neumeyer, Leonardo ^a   Franco, Horacio ^a   Digalakis, Vassilios ^a   Weintraub, Mitchel ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUTOMATIC PRONUNCIATION SCORING; COMPUTER-AIDED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL) SYSTEMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION SYSTEMS; PRONUNCIATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SPEECH QUALITY; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0034140837     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00046-1     Document Type: Article

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