A method for measuring the intelligibility and nonnativeness of phone quality in foreign language pronunciation training

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Kawai, Goh ^a   Hirose, Keikichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS MODEL; ARTICULATORY GESTURES; BILINGUALS; FOREIGN ACCENTS; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; LEARNING PROGRESS; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NON NATIVENESS; PRONUNCIATION TRAININGS; TARGET LANGUAGE;

TELEPHONE SETS;

EID: 85128432075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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