Using non-native error patterns to improve pronunciation verification

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 590-593

  Van Doremalen, Joost ^a   Cucchiarini, Catia ^a   Strik, Helmer ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer assisted language learning; Confidence measures; Pronunciation error detection; Weighted GOP

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; ERRORS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; E-LEARNING; INFORMATION USE;

COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; CONFIDENCE MEASURE; ERROR PATTERNS; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; PRONUNCIATION ERROR DETECTION; PRONUNCIATION QUALITY; TRAINING MATERIAL; WEIGHTED GOP; NON-NATIVE; PERFORMANCE; QUALITY MEASURES;

INFORMATION USE; ERRORS;

EID: 79959835626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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