Automatic Assessment of Non-Native Prosody for English as L2
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We recorded non-native English productions of 55 speakers; a subset of these productions was assessed by 60 native English speakers as for their quality w. r. t. intelligibility, rhythm, etc. Applying multiple linear regression on a large prosodic feature vector – modelling approaches known from the literature as well as generic prosody – we can automatically predict the listener’s assessments with correlations of up to .85. We discuss most important features and limitations of this approach.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010