Logic and validation of a fully automatic spoken english test

The Path of Speech Technologies in Computer Assisted Language Learning: From Research Toward Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 174-194

  Bernstein, Jared ^a   Cheng, Jian ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ordinate Corporation   (United States)

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EID: 84917261411     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203937761     Document Type: Chapter

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