Speech synthesis for teaching lexical stress
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This paper reports on a study carried out on a group of KTH students studying Technical English. Students used WaveSurfer audiovisual synthesis to experiment with differences in pitch and duration in Swedish-English cognates. The exercise helped students achieve long-term acquisition of correct lexical stress for the particular words.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002