A tool developed for computer-aided training of spoken language is presented in the paper. The tool’s environment utilizes both visual and auditory feedback information to help a user in learning pronunciation and intonation in L1 or L2. The learning is supported by displaying the user’s speech and its relevant parameters (volume, F0 and spectrum) in parallel with multiple reference templates. ...

• Improving the performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) on learner's speech in a non-dominant variety pluricentric language by cumulating resources from different varieties same language. Through transfer learning approach, knowledge dominant can be transferred to and this benefits non-native recognition. Introducing plausible pronunciation errors native corpus based evaluate Pronunci...

The CrossTowns lexicons are part of a study that focuses on the phonetic variants that occur when speakers of different native languages (L1) with varying degrees of target language (L2) proficiency pronounce foreign city names. Based on a collection of speech data from this domain, it is one of the aims to identify the most common pronunciation errors in a particular L1/L2 pair (language direc...

Mispronunciation detection and diagnosis are part and parcel of a computer assisted pronunciation training (CAPT) system, collectively facilitating second-language (L2) learners to pinpoint erroneous pronunciations in a given utterance so as to improve their spoken proficiency. This thesis presents a continuation of such a general line of research and the major contributions are three-fold. Fir...

This paper is organized around two main endeavours. On the one hand, we examine currently available Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) systems with a view to establishing whether they meet pedagogically sound requirements. In this respect, we show that many commercial systems tend to prefer technological novelties to the detriment of pedagogical criteria that could benefit the lear...

This study uses articulography, the measurement of the position of tongue and lips during speech, as a tool to quantitatively assess the differences between pronunciations of native and non-native (Dutch) speakers of English. In our study, we focus on two pairs of English sound contrasts: /s/-/ʃ/ and /t/-/θ/. Our analysis focuses on the anterior-posterior position of the tongue tip during the p...

In this work we present SAMPLE, a new pronunciation database of Spanish as L2, and first results on the automatic assessment of Nonnative prosody. Listen and repeat and read tasks are carried out by native and foreign speakers of Spanish. The corpus has been designed to support comparative studies and evaluation of automatic pronunciation error assessment both at phonetic and prosodic level. Fo...

This study aims to elaborate on the findings of utterances bilabial letters B and Syafatain huruf Ba spoken by Indonesians as non-Arabic speakers in context differences pronunciation between Arabic Indonesian letters. The method used this research is a qualitative approach using participant speakers. Three participants recited Surah Al-Fatihah mosque environment. Data collection techniques are ...

The study examined attitudes of 372 first-year bachelor Italian university students towards various aspects foreign-accented speech. data showed that the respondents have generally positive pronunciation teaching, while most divisive statements regarded relative importance studying L2 phonetics and sufficiency comprehensibility in communication. Correlations between these students’ biographical...

s In dieser Studie wurden die vokalischen Aussprachemuster von slowenischen Studierenden des Deutschen als Fremdsprache (L2) untersucht. Die Konvergenz gespannter und ungespannter L2- deutscher Vokale in eine Kategorie wäre vereinbar mit einem der Assimilationsmuster im Perceptional Assimilation Model-L2 (Tyler/Best 2014): Der gespannte Vokal stellt den perzeptionell weniger markierten Kategori...