QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS' FLUENCY: AN AUTOMATIC APPROACH

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Cucchiarini, Catia ^a   Strik, Helmer ^a   Boves, Lou ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

AUTOMATIC APPROACHES; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNIZERS; FLUENTS; NON-NATIVE; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; QUANTITATIVE VARIABLES; SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS; SPEECH QUALITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 67650635995     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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