Phoneme level non-native pronunciation analysis by an auditory model-based native assessment scheme

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1157-1160

  Koniaris, Christos ^a   Engwall, Olov ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Auditory model; Distortion measure; Perceptual assessment; Phoneme; Second language learning

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY MODELS; DISTORTION MEASURES; PERCEPTUAL ASSESSMENT; PHONEME; SECOND LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AUDITION;

EID: 84865793022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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