Does popular speech recognition software work with ESL speech?

TESOL Quarterly

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 592-603

  Derwing, Tracey M ^a   Munro, Murray J ^a,b   Carbonaro, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 23844505717     PISSN: 00398322     EISSN: 15457249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3587748     Document Type: Article

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