We attempted to enhance the perception of American English III and HI for Japanese speakers by making various modifications to the speech stimuli. Our methods of modification involved spoken, simple acoustic editing, and manipulation through re-synthesis. We discuss the various enhancement methodologies and the supporting perceptual data.
Cite as: Pruitt, J.S., Kawahara, H., Akahane-Yamada, R., Kubo, R. (1998) Methods of enhancing speech stimuli for perceptual training: exaggerated articulation, context truncation, and "STRAIGHT" re-synthesis. Proc. ETRW on Speech Technology in Language Learning (STiLL), 107-110
@inproceedings{pruitt98_still,
author={John S. Pruitt and Hideki Kawahara and Reiko Akahane-Yamada and Rieko Kubo},
title={{Methods of enhancing speech stimuli for perceptual training: exaggerated articulation, context truncation, and "STRAIGHT" re-synthesis}},
year=1998,
booktitle={Proc. ETRW on Speech Technology in Language Learning (STiLL)},
pages={107--110}
}