Prosodic features for automatic text-independent evaluation of degree of nativeness for language learners

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Teixeira, Carlos ^a,b   Franco, Horacio ^b   Shriberg, Elizabeth ^b   Precoda, Kristin ^b   Sönmez, Kemal ^b  

^a INESC   (Portugal)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE LEARNING; PROSODIC FEATURES; SPEECH SIGNALS; TEXT INDEPENDENTS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 84865706337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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