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Perceptual Evaluation of Pronunciation Quality for Computer Assisted Language Learning

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Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment (Edutainment 2006)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 3942))

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel method of perceptual evaluation of pronunciation quality for Computer Assisted Language Learning used in e-learning. The overall score of the pronunciation quality is the combination of the matching score, the perceptual score and the asymmetric score. The matching score is the measure of the acoustic distortion of the test speech, the perceptual score models the perceived distortion by human in perception domain and the asymmetric score describes the asymmetric effect of the sensation of the deletion error and the insertion error in spoken English. The correlation coefficient between the predicted objective score and the subjective score by the experts is 0.75, which is advantageous over current methods based on HMM.

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  1. State Key Laboratory on Transducing Technology, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, P.R. China

    Chao-Lei Li & Shan-Hong Xia

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P.R. China

    Jia Liu

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  1. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  2. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Ruth Aylett

  3. Fraunhofer IGD, Joachim-Jungius-Strasse 11, 18059, Rostock, Germany

    Holger Diener

  4. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, P.R. China

    Xiaogang Jin

  5. Digital Storytelling Dept, ZGDV e.V., Rundeturmstr. 10, P.O. Box, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Göbel

  6. School of Management, Shenzhen University, 518060, Shenzhen, P.R. China

    Li Li

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Li, CL., Liu, J., Xia, SH. (2006). Perceptual Evaluation of Pronunciation Quality for Computer Assisted Language Learning. In: Pan, Z., Aylett, R., Diener, H., Jin, X., Göbel, S., Li, L. (eds) Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment. Edutainment 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3942. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11736639_6

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