A statistical method of evaluating pronunciation proficiency for English words spoken by Japanese

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 3193-3196

  Nakagawa, Seiichi ^a   Mori, Kazumasa ^a   Nakamura, Naoki ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEACHING;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; ACOUSTIC MODEL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENGLISH WORD; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; OPEN DATUM; PHONEME RECOGNITION; RATE OF SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009187876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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