Fluency Scoring of English Speaking Tests for Nonnative Speakers Using a Native English Phone Recognizer
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عنوان ژورنال: Phonetics and Speech Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2005-8063
DOI: 10.13064/ksss.2015.7.2.149