Conventionally, the extraction of hand-crafted acoustic features has been separated from the
task of establishing robust machine-learning models in speech processing. The manual …

This paper introduces a new open-source speech corpus named" speechocean762"
designed for pronunciation assessment use, consisting of 5000 English utterances from 250 …

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

The increasing demand for learning English as a second language has led to a growing
interest in methods for automatically assessing spoken language proficiency. Most …

Code-switching (CSW) is the phenomenon where speakers use two or more languages in a
single discourse or utterance—an increasingly recognised natural product of multilingualism …

In this paper we present kidsTALC an audio dataset with orthographic and phonetic
transcriptions of German children's speech collected to facilitate the development of speech …

Children's Speech Recognition (CSR) is a challenging task due to the high variability in
children's speech patterns and limited amount of available annotated children's speech …

In an interconnected world where English has become the lingua franca of culture,
entertainment, business, and academia, the growing demand for learning English as a …

One of the central skills that language learners need to practice is speaking the language.
Currently, students in school do not get enough speaking opportunities and lack …

Recent deep learning algorithms are known to perform better for Automatic Speech
Recognition (ASR) of adult speakers, however, yet remains a challenge to recognize …