COMPUTER-BASED SECOND LANGUAGE PRODUCTION TRAINING BY USING SPECTROGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION AND HMM-BASED SPEECH RECOGNITION SCORES

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Akahane Yamada, Reiko ^a   McDermott, Erik ^a   Adachi, Takahiro ^a   Kawahara, Hideki ^a   Pruitt, John S ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

FORMANT FREQUENCY; HMM-BASED; HUMAN JUDGMENTS; L2 SPEECH; LANGUAGE PRODUCTION; PRE-TRAINING; PRODUCTION QUALITY; SECOND LANGUAGE; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH TRAINING;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 85009091627     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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