Automated pronunciation scoring using confidence scoring and landmark-based SVM

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1903-1906

  Yoon, Su Youn ^a   Hasegawa Johnson, Mark ^a   Sproat, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence score; Landmark Support Vector Machine; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE SCORE; LANDMARK SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; SCORING METHODS; SECOND LANGUAGE; SUBSTITUTION PATTERNS;

CLASSIFIERS; ERRORS; GEARS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450188588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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