The paper gives a comprehensive overview over the results, the concepts and the methods which were developed and used to create the Pronouncing Dictionary of Austrian German (ÖAWB/AGPD) and the Austrian Pronouncing Database ADABA. The AGPD contains 42.000 entries which are based on a large audio corpus of 75.964 realisations of two model speakers each from Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The ...

This paper describes two experiments aimed at exploring the relationship between objective properties of speech and perceived pronunciation quality in read and spontaneous speech, with a view to determining whether such quantitative measures can be used to develop objective pronunciation tests. Read and spontaneous speech of two groups of 60 learners of Dutch as a second language was scored for...

In this study we develop pronunciation distances based on naive discriminative learning (NDL). Measures of pronunciation distance are used in several subfields of linguistics, including psycholinguistics, dialectology and typology. In contrast to the commonly used Levenshtein algorithm, NDL is grounded in cognitive theory of competitive reinforcement learning and is able to generate asymmetrica...

This study aims to describe the pronunciation errors of vocabulary and factors causing that are read by blind students at MAN 2 Klaten. The method used for this research is descriptive qualitative research. data collection methods researchers access required in writing observation method, interview documentation method. From research, it known some mistakes made include ibdal, hadzf, idhafah. m...

The aim of this contribution is twofold: evaluating the use of pronunciation variants in read and spontaneous speech and studying the link between word frequencies and pronunciation variants. The dependance of pronunciation variants on a given system connguration is also addressed in the rst part. For the second aspect of this work diierent variant types are deened. A cross-lingual study is car...

Pronunciation teaching methods, as a part of computer assisted language learning systems, are currently limited in their ability to produce feedback on pronunciation quality. After an overview of previous work on pronunciation teaching , this article presents a pronunciation scoring algorithm based on automatic speech recognition, whereby scores at a phonemic level can be calculated. These \goo...

Generating correct pronunciation of proper names remains one of the most difficult tasks in text-to-phoneme transcription. Although phonetic rules can be efficient in processing proper names of one language, foreign family names cannot be always correctly generated without additional pronunciation rules. The present study addresses the problem of pronunciation variants for French and foreign fa...

In this paper, we propose a procedure for training a pronunciation network with criteria consistent with the optimality objectives for speech recognition systems. In particular, we describe a framework for using maximum likelihood(ML) and minimum classi cation error(MCE) criteria for pronunciation network optimization. The ML criterion is used to obtain an optimal structure for the pronunciatio...

This paper describes how the performance of a continuous speech recognizer for Dutch has been improved by modeling pronunciation variation. We used three methods in order to model pronunciation variation. First, withinword variation was dealt with. Phonological rules were applied to the words in the lexicon, thus automatically generating pronunciation variants. Secondly, cross-word pronunciatio...

This paper describes two experiments aimed at exploring the relationship between objective properties of speech and perceived pronunciation quality in read and spontaneous speech, with a view to determining whether such quantitative measures can be used to develop objective pronunciation tests. Read and spontaneous speech of two groups of 60 learners of Dutch as a second language was scored for...