Pronunciation assessment and its application in computer-aided pronunciation training
(CAPT) have seen impressive progress in recent years. With the rapid growth in language …

This paper presents an initial attempt to use self-supervised learning for Mispronunciaiton
Detection. Unlike existing methods that use speech recognition corpus to train models, we …

The increased need for foreign language learning, along with advances in speech
technology have heightened interest in computer-assisted pronunciation teaching (CAPT) …

Automatic pronunciation assessment is a major component of a computer-assisted
pronunciation training system. To provide in-depth feedback, scoring pronunciation at …

Automatic pronunciation assessment and error detection play an important part of Computer-
Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT). Traditional approaches normally focus on scoring …

Speech evaluation is an essential component in computer-assisted language learning
(CALL). While speech evaluation on English has been popular, automatic speech scoring …

This paper proposes an end-to-end pronunciation assessment method to exploit the
adequate native data and reduce the need for non-native data costly to label. To obtain …

Acoustics-based automatic assessment is a highly desirable approach to detecting speech
sound disorder (SSD) in children. The performance of an automatic speech assessment …

We investigate the effectiveness of soft-target tone labels and sequential context information
for mispronunciation detection of Mandarin lexical tones pronounced by second language …

Computer aided pronunciation training tools require accurate automatic pronunciation error
detection algorithms to identify errors made by their users. However, the performance of …