IoT is a fundamental enabling technology for creating smart spaces, which can assist the
effective face-to-face and online education systems. The transition to smart education …

The research community has long studied computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT)
methods in non-native speech. Researchers focused on studying various model …

Learning games have a remarkable potential for education. They provide an emergent form
of social participation that deserves the assessment of their usefulness and efficiency in …

Cyber–physical systems (CPSs) are evolving from individual systems to collectives of
systems that collaborate to achieve highly complex goals, realizing a cyber–physical system …

This paper presents an investigation of speaker adaptation using a continuous vocoder for
parametric text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. In purposes that demand low computational …

We propose a weakly-supervised model for word-level mispronunciation detection in non-
native (L2) English speech. To train this model, phonetically transcribed L2 speech is not …

Featured Application The CAPT tool, ASR technology and procedure described in this work
can be successfully applied to support typical learning paces for Spanish as a foreign …

Practicing pronunciation through language learning systems incorporating Automatic
Speech Recognition (ASR) technology has been effective in helping improve foreign …

In this study, the effects of constructivist learning and computer-assisted instruction on the
achievement and attitudes of high school 2nd grade students in learning folk literature unit …

Phone-level pronunciation scoring is a challenging task, with performance far from that of
human annotators. Standard systems generate a score for each phone in a phrase using …