Phoneme Level Non-Native Pronunciation Analysis by an Auditory Model-based Native Assessment Scheme
2011 (English)In: 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2011, International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH , 2011, p. 1157-1160Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
We introduce a general method for automatic diagnostic evaluation of the pronunciation of individual non-native speakers based on a model of the human auditory system trained with native data stimuli. For each phoneme class, the Euclidean geometry similarity between the native perceptual domain and the non-native speech power spectrum domain is measured. The problematic phonemes for a given second language speaker are found by comparing this measure to the Euclidean geometry similarity for the same phonemes produced by native speakers only. The method is applied to different groups of non-native speakers of various language backgrounds and the experimental results are in agreement with theoretical findings of linguistic studies.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH , 2011. p. 1157-1160
Series
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, ISSN 1990-9772
Keywords [en]
second language learning, auditory model, distortion measure, perceptual assessment, phoneme
National Category
Other Computer and Information Science Computer Sciences Signal Processing
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-39054ISI: 000316502200293Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84865793022ISBN: 978-1-61839-270-1 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-39054DiVA, id: diva2:439334
Conference
12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2011. Florence, Italy. 28-31 August 2011
Note
QC 20111118.
Shortlisted for the best student paper award prize.
2011-09-072011-09-072024-03-18Bibliographically approved