Automatic detection of frequent pronunciation errors made by L2-learners

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1345-1348

  Truong, Khiet ^a   Neri, Ambra ^b   De Wet, Febe ^c   Cucchiarini, Catia ^b   Strik, Helmer ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; BIT ERROR RATE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TABLES; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

DECISION TREES; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; NON-NATIVE SPEECH; PRONUNCIATION ERRORS;

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 33745225190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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