Instantaneous estimation of prosodic pronunciation habits for Japanese students to learn English pronunciation

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Minematsu, Nobuaki ^a   Nakagawa, Seiichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEACHING;

CALL SYSTEMS; DETECTION RATES; ENGLISH WORD; LANGUAGE LEARNING; SINGLE WORDS; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY; STRESS GENERATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009128671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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