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Abstract | ||
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This paper outlines the motivation and development of a pronunciation aid (MPAi) for the Maori language, the language of the indigenous people of New Zealand. Maori is threatened and after a break in transmission the language is currently undergoing revitalization. The data for the aid has come from a corpus of 60 speakers (men and women). The language aid allows users to model their speech against exemplars from young speakers or older speakers of Maori. This is important, because of the status of the elders in the Maori speaking community, but it also recognizes that Maori is undergoing substantial vowel change. The pronunciation aid gives feedback on vowel production via formant analysis, and selected words via speech recognition. The evaluation of the aid by 22 language teachers is presented and the resulting changes are discussed. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2017 | 10.21437/Interspeech.2017-215 | 18TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2017), VOLS 1-6: SITUATED INTERACTION |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Maori language, human-computer interaction, Pronunciation Aid, formants | Pronunciation,Computer science,Speech recognition,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence | Conference |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
2308-457X | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
1 | 5 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catherine I. Watson | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Peter Keegan | 2 | 0 | 1.01 |
| Margaret Maclagan | 3 | 1 | 1.45 |
| Ray Harlow | 4 | 1 | 1.45 |
| Jeanette King | 5 | 1 | 1.79 |