TR-SLT-0085 :2004/09/30

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.