It is suggested that algorithms capable of estimating and characterizing accent knowledge
would provide valuable information in the development of more effective speech systems …

Speech recognition systems have made tremendous progress since the last few decades.
They have developed significantly in identifying the speech of the speaker. However, there …

This paper focuses on foreign accent characterisation and identification in French. How
many accents may a native French speaker recognise and which cues does (s) he use? Our …

Articulation characteristics of particular phonemes can provide cues to distinguish accents in
spoken English. For example, as shown in Arslan and Hansen (1996, 1997), Voice Onset …

Reading and writing are core competencies of any society. In Germany, international and
national comparative studies such as PISA or IGLU have shown that around 25% of German …

In the context of teaching pronunciation of English as Foreign Language EFL, many studies
have investigated a range of factors that affect pronunciation (see‎ 2.4). It is considered by …

Reading and writing are core competencies of any society. In Germany, international and
national comparative studies such as PISA (Programme for International Student …

The problem of adapting acoustic models of native English speech to nonnative speakers is
addressed from a perspective of adaptive model complexity selection. The goal is to select …

Depuis peu, émerge une réelle dynamique de constitution et de diffusion de corpus d'écrits
scolaires, notamment francophones. Ces corpus, qui appuient les travaux en didactique de …

This paper evaluates an automatic spelling error tagger and classifier for German texts. After
explaining the existing error tags in detail, the accuracy of the tool is validated against a …