Acoustic-phonetic approach for automatic evaluation of spoken grammar

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2614-2617

  Deshmukh, Om D ^a   Verma, Ashish ^a  

^a IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

Author keywords

Acoustic phonetics; Automatic language learning; Speech recognition; Spoken grammar evaluation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; ACOUSTIC-PHONETIC APPROACH; AUTOMATIC EVALUATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; ENGLISH SKILLS; EVALUATION TECHNIQUES; LABELED DATA; LANGUAGE LEARNING; ONE-PASS; SPOKEN GRAMMAR EVALUATION;

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80052673323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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