Application of structural events detected on ASR outputs for automated speaking assessment

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 766-769

  Chen, Lei ^a   Yoon, Su Youn ^a  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISFLUENCIES; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; SPEECH TRANSCRIPTIONS; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; STRUCTURAL EVENTS;

LINEAR REGRESSION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 84878392082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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