Automatic pronunciation scoring of words and sentences independent from the non-native's first language

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-88

  Cincarek, Tobias ^a   Gruhn, Rainer ^a   Hacker, Christian ^b   Nöth, Elmar ^b   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mispronunciation detection; Non native speech; Phoneme mispronunciation statistic; Pronunciation assessment; Sentence scoring; Word scoring

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH;

MISPRONUNCIATION DETECTIONS; NON-NATIVE SPEECH; PRONUNCIATION ASSESSMENT; SENTENCE SCORING; WORD SCORING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 47349126706     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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