Development of English Speech Database Read by Japanese to Support CALL Research
Development of English Speech Database Read by Japanese to Support CALL Research
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2004
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N. Minematsu;Y. Tomiyama;K. Yoshimoto;K. Shimizu;S. Nakagawa;M. Dantsuji;S. Makino
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N. Minematsu;Y. Tomiyama;K. Yoshimoto;K. Shimizu;S. Nakagawa;M. Dantsuji;S. Makino
本文描述了支持CALL(计算机辅助语言学习)研究的ERJ(English Read By Japan)数据库的开发。DB分为两部分，日本人读英语，美国人读英语，两者的读物都是一样的。阅读材料由四部分组成，韵律/语音×句子/单词部分。从日本各地的不同大学中随机挑选了202名日本学生，要求他们重复阅读表格，直到他们判断自己的发音正确为止。阅读材料包含了正确发音的有用指南，如音素符号、韵律符号等。在录音之前，学生们被允许做一些练习。由此产生的数据库可以被视为一卷英语发音，至少对日本学生来说是正确的。在收集了语音样本后，五名美国英语教师被要求根据发音的语音(音段)、节奏和语调三个标准对DB的一部分的话语进行评级。本文还介绍了该数据库正在进行的几个项目。
This paper describes development of ERJ (English Read by Japanese) database, which is designed to support CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) research. The DB is divided into two parts, English read by Japanese and that by Americans with the same reading sheets in both. The reading material is composed of four sections, prosodic/phonetic × sentence/word sections. 202 Japanese students were randomly selected from various universities all over Japan and they were requested to repeat reading the sheets until they judged that they did the correct pronunciation. The reading sheets contained helpful guidelines to the correct pronunciation, such as phonemic symbols, prosodic marks, and so on. Before the recording, the students were allowed to do some practices. The resulting DB can be viewed as a volume of English pronunciations which are correct at least for Japanese students. After collecting speech samples, five American teachers of English were asked to rate utterances of a part of the DB based on three criteria, phonetic (segmental), rhythmic, and intonational aspects of pronunciation. This paper also describes several on-going projects with this DB.