Title
Better Nonnative Intonation Scores Through Prosodic Theory
Abstract
Pronunciation scoring is one important task for software designed to give feedback to students practicing a second language. English intonation can convey information about a speaker's nativeness, so previous studies have proposed using intonation-based models to score nonnative pronunciation. One past approach trained models for a set of pronunciation scores using ad hoc features derived from the frequency contour. We use prosodic theory to train models for categorical intonation units, inspired by work in modeling tone languages. These HMM-based models offer 0.398 correlation between automatic and listener scores on the ISLE nonnative speech corpus, compared to the 0.156 baseline correlation.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
INTERSPEECH 2008: 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2008, VOLS 1-5
prosody, nonnative speech, pronunciation
Field
DocType
Citations 
Computer science,Speech recognition
Conference
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.82
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joseph Tepperman1738.59
Narayanan Shrikanth25558439.23