Development of a multi-tiered speech annotation system for Modeling Accented English
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This paper discusses methodological issues in the development of a multitiered, phonetic annotation system, intended to capture pronunciation variation in the speech of second language learners and to serve in construction of a data base for training ASR models to recognize major pronunciation variants in the assessment of accented English.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004