A statistical method of evaluating pronunciation proficiency for Japanese words

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2233-2236

  Ohta, Kei ^a   Nakagawa, Seiichi ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; PRONUNCIATION PROFICIENCY; RECOGNITION RATES; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CORRELATION THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENTS; PROBABILITY; SET THEORY; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745207997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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