Native Language Identification Based on English Accent
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چکیده
Present work is aimed at investigating the influence of mother tongue (L1) of a South Indian speaker on a second language (L2). Second language can be a dominant local language, national language in India i.e., Hindi or a connecting language English. In the current study, L2 is a short discourse in English. Cepstral and prosodic features were used as in Language Identification (LID) to distinguish languages. Both perceptual features and acoustic prosodic features were employed to train Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs). Studies are carried out with each of the South Indian languages Telugu, Tamil and Kannada as L1. Results showed accuracies upto 85%. Difference in prosodic features of non-native speech is found to be a useful tool for identifying the native state of a polyglot.
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