Efficient pronunciation assessment of taiwanese-accented english based on unsupervised model adaptation and dynamic sentence selection

Chung Hsien Wu, Hung Yu Su, Chao Hong Liu

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摘要

This chapter presents an efficient approach to personalized pronunciation assessment of Taiwaneseaccented English. The main goal of this study is to detect frequently occurring mispronunciation patterns of Taiwanese-accented English instead of scoring English pronunciations directly. The proposed assessment help quickly discover personalized mispronunciations of a student, thus English teachers can spend more time on teaching or rectifying students' pronunciations. In this approach, an unsupervised model adaptation method is performed on the universal acoustic models to recognize the speech of a specific speaker with mispronunciations and Taiwanese accent. A dynamic sentence selection algorithm, considering the mutual information of the related mispronunciations, is proposed to choose a sentence containing the most undetected mispronunciations in order to quickly extract personalized mispronunciations. The experimental results show that the proposed unsupervised adaptation approach obtains an accuracy improvement of about 2.1% on the recognition of Taiwanese-accented English speech.

原文English
主出版物標題Multidisciplinary Computational Intelligence Techniques
主出版物子標題Applications in Business, Engineering, and Medicine
發行者IGI Global
頁面12-30
頁數19
ISBN(列印)9781466618305
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 2012

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 一般電腦科學

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