Intonation evaluation of english utterances using synthesized speech for computer-assisted language learning

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1501-1514

  Ito, Akinori ^a   Konno, Tomoaki ^a   Ito, Masashi ^a   Makino, Shozo ^a   Suzuki, Motoyuki ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

CALL; Computer assisted language learning; English; Intonation evaluation; Synthesized speech

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING SYSTEMS; EVALUATION METHOD; EVALUATION SYSTEM; RAPID DEVELOPMENT; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 77950148876     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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