Statistical Pronunciation Modeling for Non-Native Speech Processing

by Satoshi Nakamura, Rainer E. Gruhn, Wolfgang Minker

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642195857
• ISBN13: 9783642195853
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"