Instantaneous estimation of accentuation habits for Japanese students to learn English pronunciation
Instantaneous estimation of accentuation habits for Japanese students to learn English pronunciation
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即时估算日本学生学习英语发音的重音习惯
DOI：
10.21437/eurospeech.2001-658
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
S. Nakagawa
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作者：
Naoki Nakamura;N. Minematsu;S. Nakagawa
近年来，越来越多的研究将语音技术应用于语言学习。作者特别关注日语中英语单词重音的产生方式。这是因为日语学习者不可避免的重读习惯很容易在他们的重音生成中找到。在我们以前的研究中，我们开发了一个重读音节检测器和一个重读习惯估计器[5]{[7]，其中个体学习者的估计习惯与英语教师对他们英语发音的评价一致。然而，在我们以前的研究中的估计方法需要几十个单词的话语或相对大量的计算，即使当一个单词的话语使估计。在本文中，我们研究了一种方法，它只需要一个单词的发音与一个小的计算成本。结果表明，在我们以前的研究中估计的习惯和当前的习惯之间可以发现相似的趋势。
More and more e(cid:11)orts have been recently made to apply speech technologies to language learning[1]{ [4]. The authors have been especially focusing on Japanese manners of generating English word stress. This is because accentuation habits inevitable to Japanese learners can be easily found in their stress generation. In our previous studies, a stressed syllable detector and an accentuation habit estimator were developed[5]{[7], where the estimated habits of individual learners accorded well with their English pronunciation pro(cid:12)ciency rated by English teachers. However, the estimation methods in our previous studies required several dozens of word utterances or a relatively large amount of computation even when a single word utterance enabled the estimation. In this paper, we investigated a method which required only a single word utterance with a small computation cost. Results showed that similar tendencies can be found between the habits estimated in our previous study and those in the current one.