Prosody and Speaker State : Paralinguistics , Pragmatics , and Proficiency
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Prosody and Speaker State: Paralinguistics, Pragmatics, and Proficiency
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Proficiency Assessment of ESL Learner's Sentence Prosody with TTS Synthesized Voice as Reference
We investigate how to assess the prosody quality of an ESL learner’s spoken sentence against native speaker’s natural recording or TTS synthesized voice. A spoken English utterance read by an ESL leaner is compared with the recording of a native speaker, or TTS voice. The corresponding F0 contours (with voicings) and breaks are compared at the mapped syllable level via a DTW. The correlations b...
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