It has been widely assumed that in speech perception it is imperative to first detect a set of
distinctive properties or features and then use them to recognize phonetic units like …

Acoustic features extracted in the vicinity of landmarks have demonstrated their usefulness
for detecting mispronunciation in our recent work [1, 2]. Traditional approaches of detecting …

Over the last few decades, the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning has
evolved. Due to the advancement in these fields, much work has been done to assist …

This paper tests the hypothesis that distinctive feature classifiers anchored at phonetic
landmarks can be transferred cross-lingually without loss of accuracy. Three consonant …

Due to the trait of Mandarin syllable structure, mandarin alveolar-palatal consonants tc (j), tc
h (q), c (x) can only be followed by vowels starting with i (i) or y (ü), it probably means that …

This thesis reports the investigations into the task of phone-level pronunciation error
detection, the performance of which is heavily affected by the imbalanced distribution of the …

Cleft lip and palate (CLP) is one of the most common congenital disorders of the craniofacial
region. Children with CLP require surgical intervention to establish the appropriate oral …

Recent breakthroughs in automatic speech recognition (ASR) have resulted in a word error
rate (WER) on par with human transcribers on the English Switchboard benchmark …

摘要随着二语**得需求的增加, 计算机辅助发音训练成为当前研究的热点之一.
我们在前期工作中基于自动语音识别方法实现了常见偏误发音的自动检测, 但系统对p, t, k …