This paper proposes a method that allows students to hear the correct prosody of a foreign language as spoken with their own voice. This is made in two steps: First a phrase in the foreign language spoken by a student is compared to a reference pronunciation of the same phrase, which can be spoken by a teacher or provided by a CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) system. Second, the student's speech is resynthesized with duration and fundamental frequency parameters from the reference pronunciation. Our current results show that the method works well for single words and a given phonetic transcription.
Cite as: Sundström, A. (1998) Automatic prosody modification as a means for foreign language pronunciation training. Proc. ETRW on Speech Technology in Language Learning (STiLL), 49-52
@inproceedings{sundstrom98_still,
author={Anna Sundström},
title={{Automatic prosody modification as a means for foreign language pronunciation training}},
year=1998,
booktitle={Proc. ETRW on Speech Technology in Language Learning (STiLL)},
pages={49--52}
}