Phone-level pronunciation scoring and assessment for interactive language learning
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This paper investigates a method of automatic pronunciation scoring for use in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) systems. The method utilises a likelihood-based `Goodness of Pronunciation' (GOP) measure which is extended to include individual thresholds for each phone based on both averaged native con®dence scores and on rejection statistics provided by human judges. Further improvements are obtained by incorporating models of the subjectÕs native language and by augmenting the recognition networks to include expected pronunciation errors. The various GOP measures are assessed using a specially recorded database of non-native speakers which has been annotated to mark phone-level pronunciation errors. Since pronunciation assessment is highly subjective, a set of four performance measures has been designed, each of them measuring dierent aspects of how well computer-derived phone-level scores agree with human scores. These performance measures are used to cross-validate the reference annotations and to assess the basic GOP algorithm and its re®nements. The experimental results suggest that a likelihood-based pronunciation scoring metric can achieve usable performance, especially after applying the various enhancements. Ó 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Speech Communication
دوره 30 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000