Characterisation and identification of non-native French accents

Speech Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 292-310

  Vieru, Bianca ^a,b   De Mareüil, Philippe Boula ^a   Adda Decker, Martine ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Vecsys Research   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic classification; Automatic speech alignment; Data mining techniques; Foreign accents; Non native French; Perceptual experiments; Pronunciation variants

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH ALIGNMENT; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; FOREIGN ACCENTS; NON-NATIVE; PERCEPTUAL EXPERIMENTS; PRONUNCIATION VARIANTS;

ALIGNMENT; AUTOMATION; DATA MINING; EXPERIMENTS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79551480020     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. N. Abdelli-Beruh The stop voicing contrast in French sentences Phonetica 61 2004 201 219
2. Adank, P.; 2003. Vowel Normalisation: A perceptual acoustic study of Dutch vowels. Ph.D. Thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
3. Adda-Decker, M.; Hallé, P.; 2007. Bayesian framework for voicing alternation and assimilation studies on large corpora in French. In: Proc. Internat. Conf. of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 613-616.
4. M. Adda-Decker, and L. Lamel Pronunciation variants across system configuration, language and speaking style Speech Comm. 29 1999 83 98
5. O. Alba Manual de fonética hispánica 2001 Editorial Plaza Mayor San Juan
6. Angkititrakul, P.; Hansen, J.; 2003. Use of trajectory models for automatic accent identification. In: Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech). Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 1353-1356.
7. Arai, T.; Greenberg, S.; 1997. The temporal properties of spoken Japanese are similar to those of English. In: Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech). Rhodes, Greece, pp. 1011-1014.
8. L. Arslan, and J. Hansen A study of temporal features and frequency characteristics in American English foreign accent J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 102 1 1997 28 40
9. Bartkova, K.; Jouvet, D.; 2004. Foreign accent processing in automatic speech recognition. In: Proc. Internat. Conf. on Speech and Computer (SPECOM). Saint-Petersburg Russia, pp. 22-28.
10. K. Berkling Scope, syllable score and periphery evaluation: automatic syllabification and foreign accent identification Speech Comm. 35 1-2 2001 125 138
11. P. Boersma Praat, a system for doing phonetics by computer Glot Internat. 5 9/10 2001 341 345
12. P. Boula de Mareüil, and B. Vieru-Dimulescu The contribution of prosody to the perception of foreign accent Phonetica 63 2006 247 267
13. Boula de Mareüil, P.; Brahimi, B.; Gendrot, C.; 2004. Role of segmental and suprasegmental cues in the perception of Maghrebian-accented French. In: Proc. Interspeech. Jeju Island, Korea, pp. 341-344.
14. Bouselmi, G.; Fohr, D.; Illina, I.; Haton, J.-P.; 2006. Multilingual non-native speech recognition using phonetic confusion-based acoustic model modification and graphemic constraints. In: Proc. Interspeech. Pittsburgh, USA, pp. 109-112.
15. Calliope La parole et son traitement automatique 1989 Masson Paris
16. Cincarek, T.; Gruhn, R.; Nakamura, S.; 2004. Speech recognition for multiple non-native accent groups with speaker-group-dependent acoustic models. In: Proc. Interspeech. Jeju Island, Korea, pp. 1509-1512.
17. C. Clopper, and D. Pisoni Some acoustic cues for the perceptual categorization of american english regional dialects J. Phonet. 32 2004 111 140
18. P. Delattre Comparing the Phonetic Features of English, French, German and Spanish 1965 Julius Groos Verlag Heidelberg
19. Dellwo, V.; 2010. Influences of Speech Rate on the Acoustic Correlates of Speech Rhythm: An Experimental Phonetic Study Based on Acoustic and Perceptual Evidence. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Bonn, Germany.
20. F.G. Diez, V. Dellwo, N. Gavaldá, and S. Rosen The development of measurable speech rhythm during second language acquisition J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 123 5 2008 3886
21. S. Disner Evaluation of vowel normalization procedures J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 67 1980 253 261
22. J. Durand, B. Laks, and C. Lyche Le projet phonologie du franais contemporain La Tribune Internat. Langues Vivantes 33 2003 3 9
23. E. Ferragne, and F. Pellegrino Automatic dialect identification: a study of British English C. Müller, S. Schötz, Speaker Classification vol. II/2 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin 243 257
24. J. Flege The detection of French accent by American listeners J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 76 3 1984 692 707
25. J. Flege, and R. Hammond Mimicry of non-distinctive phonetic differences between language varieties Studies Second Lang. Acquisition 5 1982 1 17
26. J. Flege, and R. Port Cross-language phonetic interference: Arabic to English Lang. Speech 24 2 1981 125 146
27. J. Flege, C. Schirru, and I. MacKay Interaction between the native and second language phonetic subsystems Speech Comm. 40 2003 467 491
28. M. Freland-Ricard Organisation temporelle et rythmique chez les apprenants étrangers. Étude multilingue Rev. Phonét. Appl. 118/119 1996 61 91
29. S. Frota, M. D'Imperio, G. Elordieta, P. Prieto, and M. Vigario The phonetics and phonology of intonational phrasing in Romance P. Prieto, J. Mascaro, Segmental and Prosodic Issues in Romance Phonology 2007 John Benjamins Amsterdam/Philadelphia 131 153
30. J.-L. Gauvain, G. Adda, M. Adda-Decker, A. Allauzen, V. Gendner, L. Lamel, and H. Schwenk Where are we in transcribing French broadcast news? Proc. Interspeech 2005 Lisbon Portugal 1665 1668
31. C. Gendrot, and M. Adda-Decker Impact of duration on F1/F2 formant values of oral vowels: an automatic analysis of large broadcast news corpora in French and German Proc. Interspeech 2005 Lisbon Portugal 2453 2456
32. Ghazali, S.; Hamdi, R.; Barkat, M.; 2002. Speech rhythm variation in Arabic dialects. In: Proc. Speech Prosody Conf. Aix-en-Provence, France, pp. 331-334.
33. S. Goronzy Generating non-native pronunciation variants for lexical adaptation Speech Comm. 42 2004 109 123
34. E. Grabe, and F. Low Durational variability in speech and the rhythm class hypothesis C. Gussenhoven, N. Warner, Papers in Laboratory Phonology Vol. VII 2002 Mouton de Gruyter The Hague 515 546
35. I. Guyon, and A. Elisseeff An introduction to variable and feature selection J. Machine Learn. Res. 3 2003 1265 1287
36. J. Harrington, S. Palethorpe, and C. Watson Does the queen speak the queen's english? Nature 408 2000 927 928
37. Huckvale, M.; 2004. ACCDIST: a metric for comparing speakers' accents. In: Proc. Interspeech. Jeju Island, Korea, pp. 29-32.
38. Huckvale, M.; 2007. Hierarchical clustering of speakers into accents with the ACCDIST metric. In: Proc. Internat. Conf. of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 1821-1824.
39. R. Ihaka, and R. Gentleman A language for data analysis and graphics J. Comput. Graph. Stat. 5 3 1996 299 314
40. Jilka, M.; 2000. The Contribution of Intonation to the Perception of Foreign Accent. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
41. K. Kumpf, and R. King Foreign speaker accent classification using phoneme-dependent accent discrimination models and comparisons with human perception benchmarks Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech) 1997 Rhodes Greece 2323 2326
42. Lamel, L.; Gauvain, J.-L.; Adda, G.; Barras, C.; Bilinski, E.; Galibert, O.; Pujol, A.; Schwenk, H.; Zhu, X.; 2007. The LIMSI 2006 TC-STAR EPPS transcription systems. In: Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Hawaii, USA, pp. 997-1000.
43. Livescu, K.; Glass, J.; 2000. Lexical modeling of non-native speech for automatic speech recognition. In: Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 1683-1686.
44. H. Magen The perception of foreign-accented speech J. Phonet. 26 1998 381 400
45. Martin, A.; Le, A.; 2008. NIST 2007 language recognition evaluation. In: Proc. Odyssey-The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop. Stellenbosch, South Africa, paper 016.
46. T.M. Nearey Static, dynamic, and relational properties in vowel perception J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 85 1989 2088 2113
47. T. Piske, J. Flege, and I. MacKay Factors affecting degree of foreign accent in an L2: a review J. Phonet. 29 2001 191 215
48. A. Quilis Tratado de fonología y fonética españolas 1993 Biblioteca románica hispánica Madrid
49. Ramus, F.; 1999. Rythme des langues et acquisition du langage. Ph.D. Thesis, EHESS Paris, France.
50. Raux, A.; 2004. Automated lexical adaptation and speaker clustering based on pronunciation habits for non-native speech recognition. In: Proc. Interspeech. Jeju Island, Korea, pp. 613-616.
51. Romano, A.; 2010. Speech rhythm and timing: structural properties and acoustic correlates. In: Schmid, S.; Schwarzenbach, M.; Studer, D. (Eds.), La dimensione temporale del parlato. EDK Editore, Torriana, pp. 45-75.
52. J.-L. Rouas, I. Trancoso, C. Viana, and M. Abreu Language and variety verification on broadcast news for Portuguese Speech Comm. 50 11/12 2008 965 979
53. Sangwan, A.; Hansen, J.; 2009. On the use of phonological features for automatic accent analysis. In: Proc. Interspeech. Brighton, UK, pp. 172-175.
54. S. Schaden Crosstowns: Automatically generated phonetic lexicons of cross-lingual pronunciation variants of European city names Proc. of the Internat. Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2003 Lisbon Portugal 1395 1398
55. G. Silke, R. Stefan, and K. Ralf Generating non-native pronunciation variants for lexicon adaptation Speech Comm. 42 1 2004 109 123
56. ten Bosch, L.; Cremelie, N.; 2002. Pronunciation modelling and lexical adaptation using small training sets. In: Proc. ISCA Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation. Aspen Lodge, USA, pp. 111-116.
57. Veloso, J.; 2007. Schwa in European Portuguese: The phonological status of /ν/. In: Actes des Journées d'Études Linguistiques. Nantes, France, pp. 55-60.
58. Vieru-Dimulescu, B.; 2008. Caractérisation et identification d'accentsétrangers en franais. Ph.D. Thesis, University Paris-Sud Orsay, France.
59. I. Witten, and E. Frank Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques 2005 Morgan Kaufmann
60. C. Woehrling, and P. Boula de Mareüil Identification d'accents régionaux en franais : perception et analyse Revue Parole 37 2006 25 65
61. Woehrling, C.; Boula de Mareüil, P.; Adda-Decker, M.; 2009. Linguistically-motivated automatic classification of regional French varieties. In: Proc. Interspeech. Brighton, UK, pp. 2183-2186.
62. Yamada, R.; Strange, W.; Magnuson, J.; Pruitt, J.; Clarke, W.; 1994. The intelligibility of Japanese speakers' productions of American English /r/, /l/ and /w/, as evaluated by native speakers of American English. In: Proc. Internat. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP). Yokohama, Japan, pp. 2023-2026.