This paper reports on the early stages of a locally funded research and development project taking place in a French university. It aims at developing a comprehensive pedagogical framework for pronunciation training for adult learners of English. This framework will combine a direct approach to pronunciation training (Face-to-Face teaching) with online instruction using and adapting existing AS...

This paper presents error patterns built on the basis of our comparative analysis of American English and Mexican Spanish phonemes and allophones which can be applied in designing the error detection module of a Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) System for teaching American English pronunciation to Mexican Spanish speakers. Error identification is important for an adequate choice ...

This paper reports on the early stages of a locally funded research and development project taking place at Rennes 2 university. It aims at developing a comprehensive pedagogical framework for pronunciation training for adult learners of English. This framework will combine a direct approach to pronunciation training (face-to-face teaching) with online instruction using and adapting existing Au...

By Surgn.-Capt. R. Bird, m.d., f.r.c.sKohima. About 2 a.m., on the morning of 2nd September 1893, a bunnia of Kohima bazaar was attacked by thieves in his shop. He received a heavy blow on the forehead, but followed his assailant outside the shop. He crawled back to his shop and narrated what had occurred to his friends, He complained of much pain in his head, and commenced to gradually lose co...

The article presents a statistical mapping approach for crossspeaker acoustic-to-articulatory inversion. The goal is to estimate the most likely articulatory trajectories for a reference speaker from the speech audio signal of another speaker. This approach is developed in the framework of our system of visual articulatory feedback developed for computer-assisted pronunciation training applicat...

Behind the somewhat pompous name of this paper hides a much more modest aim. It is an attempt at clarifying one of the major problem areas found in the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), specifically the use of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). The aim of CALL is to produce tools aiding the acquisition of foreign languages and, long-term, to produce full-fledged, virtual, mu...

Mispronunciation detection is part and parcel of a computer assisted pronunciation training (CAPT) system, facilitating second-language (L2) learners to pinpoint erroneous pronunciations in a given utterance so as to improve their spoken proficiency. This paper presents a continuation of such a general line of research and the major contributions are twofold. First, we present an effective trai...

Context Several studies tend to show that visual articulatory feedback is useful for phonetic correction, both for speech therapy and “Computer Aided Pronunciation Training” (CAPT) [1]. In [2], we proposed a visual articulatory feedback system based on a 3D talking head used in “an augmented speech scenario”, i.e. displaying all speech articulators including the tongue and velum. In the propose...

-Lue following cases were all treated in the Rangoon General Hospital during the last two yeais, and were, with two exceptions, entirely under the care of Capt. 0. Duer, F.it.c.s., and myself. A perusal of the above cases will show that the injuries to the skull varied greatly in severity, but there was no case in which the injury was not of a grave nature. Out of these twenty-six cases, sevent...