Improving mispronunciation detection and diagnosis of learners' speech with context-sensitive phonological rules based on language transfer

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2787-2790

  Harrison, Alissa M ^a   Lau, Wing Yiu ^a   Meng, Helen ^a,b   Wang, Lan ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Integration Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Mispronunciation detection; Pronunciation training; Second language learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED; CONTEXT-SENSITIVE; DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; MISPRONUNCIATION DETECTION; PRONUNCIATION LEXICON; PRONUNCIATION TRAINING; PRONUNCIATION VARIANTS; RULES BASED; SECOND LANGUAGE; SPEECH RECOGNIZER;

ERRORS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEACHING;

CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGES;

EID: 84867192517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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