The implementation of an evaluation system of English phoneme pronunciation quality

Author

Yao, Min-feng ; Li, Xin-guang ; Fang, Fan-quan ; Zou, Yu ; Li, Su-mei

Author_Institution

Cisco Sch. of Inf., Guangdong Univ. of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

fYear

2012

fDate

21-23 April 2012

Firstpage

666

Lastpage

670

Abstract

This paper presents an objective evaluation system of English phoneme pronunciation. This system gives an objective evaluation and feedback from students´ pronunciation by analyzing the waveform and calculating the Mel Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC) Euclidean distance between students´ pronunciation and the standard pronunciation using the Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm. This helps students learn English phonemes without any teacher involved.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; natural language processing; teaching; time warp simulation; DTW algorithm; English phoneme pronunciation quality; MFCC Euclidean distance; dynamic time warping algorithm; mel mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients Euclidean distance; objective evaluation system; standard pronunciation; student pronunciation; Educational institutions; Filtering; Mel frequency cepstral coefficient; Speech; Speech processing; Speech recognition; DTW Algorithm; MFCC; Pronunciation Evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet), 2012 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Yichang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1414-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CECNet.2012.6202057

Filename

6202057