Computer-assisted pronunciation training: From pronunciation scoring towards spoken language learning

NF Chen, H Li - 2016 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reviews the research approaches used in computer-assisted pronunciation
training (CAPT), addresses the existing challenges, and discusses emerging trends and …

Do explicit instruction and high variability phonetic training improve nonnative speakers' Mandarin tone productions?

S Wiener, MKM Chan, K Ito - The Modern Language Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the putative benefits of explicit phonetic instruction, high variability
phonetic training, and their effects on adult nonnative speakers' Mandarin tone productions …

Automatic speech recognition system for tonal languages: State-of-the-art survey

J Kaur, A Singh, V Kadyan - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2021 - Springer
Natural language and human–machine interaction is a very much traversed as well as
challenging research domain. However, the main objective is of getting the system that can …

[PDF][PDF] Automatic Scoring at Multi-Granularity for L2 Pronunciation.

B Lin, L Wang, X Feng, J Zhang - Interspeech, 2020 - isca-archive.org
Automatic pronunciation assessment and error detection play an important part of Computer-
Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT). Traditional approaches normally focus on scoring …

[HTML][HTML] Neural representations for modeling variation in speech

M Bartelds, W de Vries, F Sanal, C Richter… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Variation in speech is often quantified by comparing phonetic transcriptions of the same
utterance. However, manually transcribing speech is time-consuming and error prone. As an …

Automatic speech recognition systems: A survey of discriminative techniques

AP Kaur, A Singh, R Sachdeva, V Kukreja - Multimedia Tools and …, 2023 - Springer
In the subject of pattern recognition, speech recognition is an important study topic. The
authors give a detailed assessment of voice recognition strategies for several majority …

Cross-lingual transfer learning of non-native acoustic modeling for pronunciation error detection and diagnosis

R Duan, T Kawahara, M Dantsuji… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT), the scarcity of large-scale non-native
corpora and human expert annotations are two fundamental challenges to non-native …

[PDF][PDF] Improving Mispronunciation Detection for Non-Native Learners with Multisource Information and LSTM-Based Deep Models.

W Li, NF Chen, SM Siniscalchi, CH Lee - Interspeech, 2017 - isca-archive.org
In this paper, we utilize manner and place of articulation features and deep neural network
models (DNNs) with long short-term memory (LSTM) to improve the detection performance …

Transfer learning for children's speech recognition

R Tong, L Wang, B Ma - 2017 International Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Children's speech processing is more challenging than that of adults due to lacking of large
scale children's speech corpora. With the developing of the physical speech organ, high …

Computer-assisted assessment of phonetic fluency in a second language: a longitudinal study of Japanese learners of French

S Detey, L Fontan, M Le Coz, S Jmel - Speech Communication, 2020 - Elsevier
Automatic second language (L2) speech fluency assessment has been one of the ultimate
goals of several projects aiming at designing Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training …