Automatically rating pronunciation through articulatory phonology

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2771-2774

  Tepperman, Joseph ^a   Goldstein, Louis ^a   Lee, Sungbok ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulatory phonology; Nonnative speech; Pronunciation modeling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DURATION MODELING; DURATION MODELS; LISTENER RATINGS; NONNATIVE SPEECH; PATTERN VECTORS; PHONEME MODELS; PHYSICAL REALIZATION; PRONUNCIATION MODELING; PRONUNCIATION QUALITY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PLANNING; SUBJECTIVE RATING; VOCAL-TRACTS;

MODELS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450217369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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