We illustrate our prototype pipeline for automatic analysis and assessment of foreign language speech. It uses automatic speech recognition as a preprocessing step for phonetic analysis and predicts the grade that human experts would give for the utterance. The work is applied in two educational research projects: DigiTala for L2 Swedish for Finnish-speaking high school students, and SIAK ”Say it again, kid!” for L2 English for Finnish-speaking 6-9 year old children.
Cite as: Rouhe, A., Karhila, R., Kallio, H., Kurimo, M. (2017) A pipeline for automatic assessment of foreign language pronunciation. Proc. 7th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2017), 190
@inproceedings{rouhe17_slate,
author={Aku Rouhe and Reima Karhila and Heini Kallio and Mikko Kurimo},
title={{A pipeline for automatic assessment of foreign language pronunciation}},
year=2017,
booktitle={Proc. 7th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2017)},
pages={190}
}