In this paper we introduce the SpeakCorrect system which is a Computer Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT) system for native Arabic students of English. The system is designed with optimized performance for the target users group. It is L1 dependent system and only the frequent pronunciation errors of native Arabic speakers are examined. Several adaptation techniques such as Speaker Adaptive Tr...

The study illustrates the similarities and differences between Arabic Chinese phonetic systems through comparison. aims to explore pronunciation errors of consonants among students learning reasons behind errors. found that tend make consonants, finding it easy pronounce ? / h as x or /. Ultimately, could improve students' comprehensive understanding system avoid similar in consonants.

Children with developmental disabilities such as childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) require repeated intervention sessions with a speech therapist, sometimes extending over several years. Technology-based therapy tools offer the potential to reduce the demanding workload of speech therapists as well as time and cost for families. In response to this need, we have developed “Tabby Talks,” a multi...

This demonstration presents de-stress: the German (de) System for Training and Research on Errors in Second-language Stress [1]. This prototype Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) tool provides a variety of options for diagnosis of and feedback on lexical stress errors, and could potentially be a useful component of an intelligent CAPT system.

The paper presents the algorithm of developing speech components aimed to be implemented into educational systems with elements of acoustic feedback. Such systems are demanded in the domain of distant education as far as foreign language teaching and pronunciation training is concerned. The need of such systems is evident because human teacher is not always at hand when the student needs phonet...

Pronunciation, long on the periphery of applied linguistics research and pedagogy, continues to grow in importance because of its central roles in speech recognition, speech perception, and speaker identity. Pronunciation-related issues such as comprehensibility, accent, and the mutual intelligibility of varieties of world Englishes are central to many questions in applied linguistics. This cal...

Focus of this work are pattern recognition related aspects of computer assisted pronunciation training (CAPT) for second language learning. An overview of commercial systems shows that pronunciation training is being addressed by the growing eld of computer assisted language learning only to a small extend, although in the state-of-the-art section a number of such approaches for automatic asses...

PLASER is a multimedia tool with instant feedback designed to teach English pronunciation for high-school students of Hong Kong whose mother tongue is Cantonese Chinese. The objective is to teach correct pronunciation and not to assess a student’s overall pronunciation quality. Major challenges related to speech recognition technology include: allowance for non-native accent, reliable and corre...

Pronunciation of proper names that have different and varied language sources is an extremely hard task, even for humans. This thesis presents an attempt to improve automatic pronunciation of proper names by modeling the way humans do it, and tries to eliminate synthesis errors that humans would never make. It does so by taking into account the different language and language family sources and...