Automatic Evaluation System of English Prosody Based on Word Importance Factor

Prosody plays an important role in speech communication between humans. Although several computer-assisted language learning (CALL) systems with utterance evaluation function have been developed, the accuracy of their prosody evaluation is still poor. In the present paper, we develop new methods by...

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Main Authors: Motoyuki Suzuki, Tatsuki Konno, Akinori Ito, Shozo Makino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2008-08-01
Series:Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
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Online Access:http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/E931VAB.pdf