Automatic pronunciation error detection based on linguistic knowledge and pronunciation space

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4841-4844

  Xu, Shuang ^a   Jiang, Jie ^a   Chen, Zhenbiao ^a   Xu, Bo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Linguistic knowledge; Log posterior probability; Pronunciation error detection; Pronunciation space

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; LOG POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; NEW APPROACHES; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; PRONUNCIATION ERROR DETECTION; PRONUNCIATION SPACE;

ACOUSTICS; LINGUISTICS; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 70349206329     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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