Phone-level pronunciation scoring and assessment for interactive language learning

Speech Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 95-108

  Witt, S M ^a   Young, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL) SYSTEMS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0034140966     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00044-8     Document Type: Article

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