Towards automatic tone correction in non-native Mandarin

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4274 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 602-613

  Peabody, Mitchell ^a   Seneff, Stephanie ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE LEARNING; FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING; MANDARIN CHINESE; NON-NATIVE; TRANSFORMATION TECHNIQUES; VOICE CHARACTERISTICS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION; STUDENTS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 67650663624     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11939993_62     Document Type: Conference Paper

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