Automatic detection of voice onset time contrasts for use in pronunciation assessment

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 721-724

  Kazemzadeh, Abe ^a   Tepperman, Joseph ^a   Silva, Jorge ^a   Hong, You ^b   Lee, Sungbok ^a   Alwan, Abeer ^b   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Pronunciation variation; Recognition of speech variation; Voice onset time

Indexed keywords

TELEPHONE SETS;

ACCENTED SPEECH; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; DIFFERENT CLASS; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; PRONUNCIATION ASSESSMENT; PRONUNCIATION VARIATION; RECOGNITION OF SPEECH VARIATION; VOICE ONSET TIME;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44949235473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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