Automatic assessment of non-native prosody for english as L2

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Digital Publishing   (Germany)

Author keywords

Foreign accent; Intelligibility; Linear correlation; Non native prosody; Rhythm

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT; FEATURES VECTOR; FOREIGN ACCENTS; INTELLIGIBILITY; LINEAR CORRELATION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NON-NATIVE; NON-NATIVE PROSODY; PROSODIC FEATURES; RHYTHM;

MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION;

EID: 80051634793     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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