Eduspeak®: A speech recognition and pronunciation scoring toolkit for computer-aided language learning applications

Language Testing

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 401-418

  Franco, Horacio ^a   Bratt, Harry ^a   Rossier, Romain ^a   Gadde, Venkata Rao ^a   Shriberg, Elizabeth ^a   Abrash, Victor ^a   Precoda, Kristin ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

automatic pronunciation scoring; computer aided language learning; mispronunciation detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955350104     PISSN: 02655322     EISSN: 14770946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265532210364408     Document Type: Article

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