In this work, we analyze phonetic and prosodic pronunciation patterns from iCALL, a speech
corpus designed to evaluate Mandarin mispronunciations by non-native speakers of …

This paper describes" TLT-school" a corpus of speech utterances collected in schools of
northern Italy for assessing the performance of students learning both English and German …

The authors address the question whether phonological features can be used effectively in
an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system for pronunciation training in non-native …

This paper reports on a pilot study to use Whisper's large language model (LLM) as a tool for
potential representation of segmental (phone) pronunciation errors. We compared the perfor …

The first part deals with general considerations on the evaluation of both human raters and
automatic systems, employed for pronunciation assessment: How can we come closer to an …