Ph.D. GalleryFlorian Hönig
Automatic Assessment of Prosody in Second Language Learning Abstract The present thesis studies methods for automatically assessing the prosody of non-native speakers for the purpose of computer-assisted pronunciation training. We study the detection of word accent errors, and the general assessment of the appropriateness of a speaker’s rhythm. We propose a flexible, generic approach that […]Automatic Assessment of Prosody in Second Language Learning Abstract The present thesis studies methods for automatically assessing the prosody of non-native speakers for the purpose of computer-assisted pronunciation training. We study the detection of word accent errors, and the general assessment of the appropriateness of a speaker’s rhythm. We propose a flexible, generic approach that […]