Tobias Cincarek and Rainer Gruhn
Automatic Assessment of the Pronunciation Quality of
English Speech Uttered by Non-Natives
Abstract:This work is about scoring the quality of pronunciation of non-native speakers on utterance and
word level. Besides the theoretical background, a literature survey on scoring methods is also
given. In the practical part results of the analysis of the human evaluation of the ATR SLT Non-Native English Database are reported. Moreover, experiments for scoring the quality of
utterances, automatically assessing the pronunciation skill of non-native speakers and for
detecting mispronounced words are carried out.