Statistical Pronunciation Modeling for Non-Native Speech Processing

By: Rainer E. Gruhn and Wolfgang Minker and Satoshi Nakamura

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Synopsis: In this work, the authors present a fully statistical approach to model non--native speakers' pronunciation. Second-language speakers pronounce words in multiple different ways compared to the native speakers. Those deviations, may it be phoneme substitutions, deletions or insertions, can be modelled automatically with the new method presented here. The methods is based on a discrete hidden Markov model as a word pronunciation model, initialized on a standard pronunciation dictionary. The implementation and functionality of the methodology has been proven and verified with a test set of non-native English in the regarding accent. The book is written for researchers with a professional interest in phonetics and automatic speech and speaker recognition.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783642195860
Related ISBNs:: 9783642195853
Publisher:: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date of Addition:: 09/23/16
Copyrighted By:: Springer
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Technology, Language Arts, Mathematics and Statistics
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.