SPEECH COMPARISON IN The Rosetta Stone TM

Speech Comparison In The Rosetta Stone TM

The Rosetta Stone TM is a successful CDROM based interactive program for teaching foreign languages, that uses speech comparison to help students improve their pronunciation. The input to a speech comparison system is N+I digitised utterances. The output is a measure of the similarity of the last utterance to each of the N others. Which language is being spoken is irrelevant. This differs from ...

The Rosetta Stone Methodology - A Benefits-Driven Approach to SPI

The Rosetta Stone Methodology (RSM) has been developed which allows organizations to undertake Software Process Improvement (SPI) based on businessand organizational-driven goals and objectives. The methodology itself is fully customizable and allows organizations to make adjustments to the model where they feel it appropriate. To demonstrate the usefulness, appropriateness and practicality of ...

Testing Suprasegmental English through Parroting

Parroting exercises in a foreign language are designed to make a student’s speech more native-like through imitation of specific native speech templates. In this paper we describe novel template-based methods for automatically estimating subjective scores for both intonation and rhythm in nonnative English. In terms of accuracy when automatically classifying a parroting speaker as a native or a...

Rosetta Stone Linguistic Problems

This paper describes the process of composing problems that are suitable for competitions in linguistics. The type of problems described is “Rosetta Stone”—a bilingual problem where typically one of the languages is unknown, and the other is the native language of the person solving the problem. The process includes selecting phenomena, composing and arranging the data and assignments in order ...

Prosetta Stone Analysis Report a Rosetta Stone for Patient Reported Outcomes