Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Systems Applied to Pronunciation Assessment of L2 Spanish for Japanese Speakers

General-purpose automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have improved in quality and are being used for pronunciation assessment. However, the assessment of isolated short utterances, such as words in minimal pairs for segmental approaches, remains an important challenge, even more so for non-nat...

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Published in:	Applied Sciences
Main Authors:	Cristian Tejedor-García, Valentín Cardeñoso-Payo, David Escudero-Mancebo
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2021-07-01
Subjects:	automatic speech recognition (ASR) automatic assessment tools foreign language pronunciation pronunciation training computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT) automatic pronunciation assessment
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/15/6695

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