This study aims to examine the language errors made by BIPA speakers on Sarah Johnson's YouTube channel. The method used is descriptive qualitative method. Data collection was carried out looking at two videos Sara channel and then transcribing recordings into writing. analysis are reducing data, presenting concluding research results. of this (1) describe in Indonesian pronunciation. In pronun...

This study aims to represent the developing status of pronunciation teaching and presents the current perspectives on pronunciation learning and teaching, coupled with innovative approaches and techniques/activities. It is argued that pronunciation teaching methodologies have changed over decades since the Reform Movement. The exact status of teaching pronunciation appeared first in the Audio L...

In this paper we show how a pronunciation quality measure can be improved by making use of information on frequent pronun­ ciation errors made by non-native speakers. We propose a new measure, called weighted Goodness of Pronunciation (wGOP), and compare it to the much used GOP measure. We applied this measure to the task of discriminating correctly from incor­ rectly realized Dutch vowels prod...

The objective of the EU-funded SpeechDat project was to create large-scale speech databases for voice-driven teleservices. This paper deals with the design of two such Swedish resources: 5000 speakers over the fixed telephone network, and 1000 over the mobile network. It also reports on experiences from speaker recruitment and presents statistics on speaker distribution. Results regarding ortho...

This paper deals with the perceptual assessment of Russian-accented Estonian. Speech samples were recorded from 20 speakers with a Russian background; clips of about 20 seconds from each speaker were selected for this perceptual study. The accentedness was rated in two tests: first, 20 native Estonian speakers judged the samples and rated the degree of foreign accent on a six-point interval sca...

When pronouncing novel/unknown words, readers often use prior experience with similar, neighbor words. Comparison to neighbors can be helpful for unknown or novel words (wug is like pug), but it can also lead to errors (pint is not like mint). We investigate whether pronunciation can be affected by top-down influences, specifically the perceived taboo-ness of a known neighbor. While orthographi...

The problem of pronunciation evaluation of sentences is defined as the combination of word based subjective pronunciation scores. The mean subjective word score criterion is proposed and modeled with the combination of word-based objective assessment. The word objective metric requires no a priori studies of common mistakes, and it makes use of class based language models to incorporate wrong a...

This paper introduces our work and results related to a multiple language continuous speech recognition task. The aim was to design a system that introduces tolerable amount of recognition errors for point of interest words in voice navigational queries even in the presence of real-life traffic noise. Additional challenges were that no task-specific training databases were available for languag...