ESCA - NATO/RSG 10 Workshop on Applications of Speech Technology Lautrach, Germany September 16-17, 1993

SPELL: A Pronunciation Training Device Based on Speech Technology

Steven Hiller (1), Edmund Rooney (2), Jean-Paul Lefevre (2), Mervyn Jack (1)

(1) Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
(2) Agora Conseil, Sassenage, France

This paper describes the application of speech technology in a workstation to improve the pronunciation of foreign language students. The SPELL workstation uses techniques of speech analysis to assess and improve learners' pronunciation in modules for teaching consonant production, vowel quality, rhythm and intonation, in three European languages (English, French and Italian). Each teaching module is discussed in terms of its phonetic basis, the implementation of its analysis modules and a description of the associated graphic user interface.

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Bibliographic reference.  Hiller, Steven / Rooney, Edmund / Lefevre, Jean-Paul / Jack, Mervyn (1993): "SPELL: a pronunciation training device based on speech technology", In AST-1993, 131-134.