Automatic Chinese pronunciation error detection using SVM trained with structural features

2012 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 473-478

  Zhao, Tongmu ^a   Hoshino, Akemi ^b   Suzuki, Masayuki ^a   Minematsu, Nobuaki ^a   Hirose, Keikichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOYAMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chinese; GOP; LR; Pronunciation error detection; robustness; structural feature; SVM

Indexed keywords

CHINESE; GOP; PRONUNCIATION ERROR DETECTION; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; SVM;

ERRORS; LAWRENCIUM; LINGUISTICS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84874226647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2012.6424270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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