USING LIKELIHOOD RATIOS TO PERFORM UTTERANCE VERIFICATION IN AUTOMATIC PRONUNCIATION ASSESSMENT

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 173-176

  de Wet, Febe ^a   Cucchiarini, Catia ^a   Strik, Helmer ^a   Boves, Lou ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

'CURRENT; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; NON-NATIVE LANGUAGE; PRONUNCIATION ASSESSMENT; UTTERANCE VERIFICATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 80052668991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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