Conversational speech exhibits considerable pronunciation variability, which has been shown to have a detrimental effect on the accuracy of automatic speech recognition. There have been many attempts to model pronunciation variation, including the use of decision-trees to generate alternate word pronunciations from phonemic baseforms. Use of such pronunciation models during recognition is known...

This study examined the impact of Clear Pronunciation 2 software on teaching English suprasegmental features, focusing on stress, rhythm and intonation. In particular, the software covers five topics in relation to suprasegmental features including consonant cluster, word stress, connected speech, sentence stress and intonation. Seven Iranian EFL learners participated in this study. The study l...

Accurate pronunciation is an important component of language ability and the main outward linguistic sign of whether someone is a native speaker of a language or not. An area of particular difficulty for Persian-speaking learners of English, which may cause 'foreign accent' or misunderstanding in speaking, is placement of stress on multi-syllable words. Game-based pronunciation teaching can be ...

This research aims to observe pronunciation errors and vowels of Grade IX students MTs Harapan Jasa Makmur. Based on the observation, writer noted that had difficulty differentiating English vowels. The type this was a qualitative method, which is descriptive tends use analysis it in form words instead numbers. In study, main data collection techniques were participant in-depth interviews, docu...

Naturalization is a translation procedure that is predominantly utilized in the translation of English medical terms into Indonesian. This study focuses on identifying types of naturalization involving the adjustment of spelling and pronunciation and investigating whether naturalization has been appropriately applied based on the rules in the Indonesian general guidance of term formation. The d...

Pronunciation is essential to appropriate communication because the incorrect use ofpronunciation inevitably leads to the message being misunderstood by the receptor. In spite of itsimportance, L2 learners often regard pronunciation as the most difficult language skill to learn.In this study, shadowing as an act or task in pronunciation, in which the learner tracks the targetspeech and repeats ...

Log-linear model combination is the standard approach in LVCSR to combine several knowledge sources, usually an acoustic and a language model. Instead of using a single scaling factor per knowledge source, we make the scaling factor wordand pronunciation-dependent. In this work, we combine three acoustic models, a pronunciation model, and a language model for a Mandarin BN/BC task. The achieved...

We present a framework for learning a pronunciation lexicon for an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system from multiple utterances of the same training words, where the lexical identities of the words are unknown. Instead of only trying to learn pronunciations for known words we go one step further and try to learn both spelling and pronunciation in a joint optimization. Decoding based on li...

One of the biggest problem areas in relation to Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) applications, designed for Second Language Learning (SLL), has been that of feedback. As with human teachers, the ultimate goal of CAPT is to provide instantaneous, individualized feedback to the user on the overall quality of the pronunciation made. Attempts at accomplishing this goal have seen the ...