Islands of Failure: Employing word accent information for pronunciation quality assessment of English L2 learners

Speech and Language Technology in Education, SLaTE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 41-44

  Hönig, Florian ^a   Batliner, Anton ^a   Weilhammer, Karl ^b   Nöth, Elmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Digital Publishing   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

APPLIED RESEARCH; COMPUTER ASSISTED; FEATURES VECTOR; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NON-NATIVE; PRONUNCIATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT; PRONUNCIATION TRAININGS; PROSODIC FEATURES; PROSODIC MODELS;

EID: 80051624024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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