Elicited imitation as an oral proficiency measure with ASR scoring

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1604-1610

  Graham, C Ray ^a   Lonsdale, Deryle ^a   Kennington, Casey ^a   Johnson, Aaron ^a   McGhee, Jeremiah ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ENGINES;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DEVELOPMENT PLANS; INTEGRATED TOOLS; LANGUAGE RESOURCES; SECOND LANGUAGE; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; STANDARD EVALUATIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

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